Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress wants to reassert its constitutional prerogative to decide whether or not the nation should go to war. About time. U.S. Presidents have gone much too far toward claiming (or rather exercising without even bothering to claim) the power of Louis XIV to send a whole nation into battle on his sole judgment, even whim. The makers of the Constitution were determined never to give one man that power in the new republic, and they were right. If the U.S. is to fight Iraq, it should be by conscious decision of its elected representatives, reached after full debate...
First came The Shoes of the Fisherman, then The Clowns of God. Lazarus (St. Martin's Press; 293 pages; $19.95) completes Morris West's papal trilogy. Few laymen have written so knowledgeably about Vatican politics. West charts the course of Leo XIV, a crusty soul who has alienated the liberals in his flock. Now the Pontiff must undergo bypass surgery, and as if that were not threat % enough, Muslim terrorists are offering $100,000 for his life. Pope Leo returns from the operation like Lazarus from the dead. But he is a changed man, with plans to alter his church...