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...good steps in its professed campaign to fight terrorism by invoking strong economic sanctions against a principal actor in the terrorist scene--Libya and its leader, Moammar Khadafy. By contrast, our European allies appear to have learned nothing from such terrible events as the holiday airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. By their continued refusal to join the United States in concerted sanctions, European governments have doomed their own citizens and untold others to an increase in terrorist violence and a possible upsetting of the balance of power in the Arab world...
...Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, about the increasingly important role played in the church by national bishops' conferences. Malone emphasized their importance to the church in collective policymaking, and argued that the teaching authority of the conferences, on certain issues and in cooperation with the Pope, should be recognized by Rome. Law, however, warned that national conferences should never usurp the powers of individual bishops...
Family members who met Bonner in Italy did not feel similarly bound. At a press conference in Rome, Alexei Semyonov, Bonner's son by her first marriage, and her son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich offered a glimpse of the painful isolation that has been endured by the Sakharovs, who were kept under constant surveillance by police. Neighbors and shopkeepers were barred from talking to them. Bonner and Sakharov, 64, were separated at least twice. When the Soviet government released film footage purportedly showing the Sakharovs strolling through Gorky last summer, he was actually on a hunger strike in Semashko Hospital...
Bernard Bajolet, a counselor at France's Embassy in Rome, said the Geneva meeting was "a stage, not really a start nor an end [in bettering East-West relations...
...release Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the Palestinian Liberation Front leader who Washington believes planned to use the Achille Lauro to launch an attack on Israel. Furious at having been excluded from any prior consultation in that decision, Spadolini was also protesting what he considered the pro-Arab tilt in Rome's Middle East policy. For the pro-U.S. Defense Minister, the stand was a matter of principle, but he lacked broad political support for his position. Craxi, however, evoked an echo of sympathy and even national pride among average Italians with his defense of his actions. Declared the Prime...