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...Brazil, Chile and Argentina, all guarantors of the 1942 treaty, have pressed both sides to avoid further bloodshed. No one doubts that a full- blown war between Peru and Ecuador would be a lopsided contest. Peru's armed forces (115,000 soldiers) and population (22 million) are twice the size of its rival's. ``Conflicts like this start as skirmishes, but they always hold within them the potential to escalate,'' says a senior Administration official. ``It's important to nip them in the bud.'' And in this case, to try to settle the border dispute once...
...midweek, Mexico got a measure of relief when the International Monetary Fund approved a $7.8 billion loan, the largest it has ever made, to help stabilize the peso. Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia also jointly opened a $1 billion credit line for Mexico. But the infusions were not large enough to solve Mexico's most serious challenge: finding sufficient funds to pay off or refinance $26 billion in mostly foreign-owned short-term bonds maturing during 1995. The government got a hint of the difficulties ahead last week when it put at auction $400 million in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds...
Ecuador accepted a ceasefire proposed by neighboring countries and the U.S. in the weeklong military skirmish with Peru, but Peru refused to cooperate. Representatives of the two countries are meeting in Brazil to try and resolve the border clash, which escalated into armed conflict three weeks ago. Unofficial reports say more than 20 Peruvians and 30 Ecuadorians have been killed so far. The dispute stems from a 1942 treaty that delineated a new border between the two countries, but left some 50 miles unmarked...
...most recent encyclical, Veritatis splendor -- The Splendor of Truth -- makes it clear that clerics and theologians are bound to a "loyal assent." He has imposed the equivalent of ecclesiastical gag orders on those who, he feels, have challenged church teaching, including Kung, American moral theologian Charles Curran and Brazil's Leonardo Boff, an exponent of Liberation Theology...
Among the front-running Cardinals from this camp are the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Bernardin Gantin, 72, of the West African nation of Benin, and Lucas Moreira Neves, 69, a descendant of slaves and Archbishop of Salvador in Brazil. The name most frequently invoked, however, is that of Francis Cardinal Arinze, the charming and efficient Archbishop from Nigeria who heads the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. A convert at the age of nine from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe, Arinze, now 62, enjoys robust health (he is an avid tennis player) and almost legendary status...