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...conciliatory gesture by he Kremlin to Pope John XXIII. But Slipyj remained unhappy about the Vatican's Ostpolitik, including its openings to the subservient Russian Orthodox Church. He campaigned publicly for the creation of a Ukrainian patriarchate, with himself it its head, and was bitter that both Paul VI and John Paul II denied him that out of deference to East-bloc relations...
...place if they hadn't thrown you down." Israel's immediate challenge, however, is at home, not with its neighbors. The country must solve not just the temporary problem of creating a new government but the more lasting one of how to translate its political will and vi brant democracy into stronger, more effective leadership...
...recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other...
Though the poisoning of a Pope may seem farfetched today, legend has it that at least one Pope-Alexander VI-died of poisoning, from a fatal potion that was intended for some Cardinals. That was in 1503, and the rumors have not let up yet. Veteran Vatican observers recall the stories of how Pope Pius X died of poisoning in 1914. Then there were the whispers about how poison killed Leo XIII in 1903, Pius VIII...
Some researchers are concerned that the vaccine's altered vi rus might actually promote the development of shingles. Another great worry is cancer. Viruses are a suspected cause, and another member of the herpes family, the simplex virus, is under suspicion, says Plotkin, "though proof is far from complete." Dr. Kenneth Mclntosh, a pediatrician at the Infectious Disease Laboratory of Boston's Children's Hospital, warns that before the Merck vaccine can be put to widespread use, "more years" of research are necessary to resolve such questions. Researchers also need to know how long the immunity...