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Pope John Paul II had long been eager to end the rebellion because, though small, it still threatened the unity of Catholicism. Weeks after becoming Pope in 1978, he granted Lefebvre's request for an audience (their only meeting) and repeatedly expressed his desire for peace. Lefebvre also seemed eager to heal the breach during his lifetime. After an extended fact-finding tour of Lefebvre's religious houses last year at the Pope's request, Canadian Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, a Vatican official highly sympathetic to traditionalists, sent John Paul a favorable report, typing it himself to keep the recommendations confidential...
...billion to $300 billion below the amounts it had planned to spend. A $300 billion cut is roughly equivalent to the current year's total military outlays, from missiles to mouthwash, battleships to boots. And that amount is the optimistic estimate. It assumes that Congress will heed Carlucci's request to increase the Pentagon's budget each year by a steady 2% above the rate of inflation. While George Bush supports this idea, Dukakis talks of holding defense appropriations even with the rate of price increases...
Weinberger left behind a budget request for fiscal 1989, which begins Oct. 1, that called for $333 billion in military funding. Negotiators for the White House and Congress agreed to reduce that to just under $300 billion -- with no guidelines on what to chop. The new Secretary of Defense had a mere five weeks before formal presentation of the amended budget to find $33 billion to slash...
...Corporation refused a council request to annual meetings with students. The request certainly was not much to ask; the refusal shows how adamantly opposed to dialogue the administration is. As a reflection of the white male-run Corporation that runs this school, this attitude makes sense. But now students are showing that they expect more. And having deigned to admit a diverse student body, Harvard has a responsibility to accommodate their concerns...
...similar reasons, the masters also denied SCA's April request for information outlining house assignments for this year's freshman athletes. The committee sought the date to determine whether publicity surrounding the threat of quotas has corrected the uneven distribution of athletes...