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...archbishop mixing his cocktails [Feb. 4] reminds me of my Kabul days when, soon after Japan entered the war, the wine stocks of our Japanese legation became dangerously low. Yet at the Italian legation wine still flowed. I asked his Italian excellency if he had a pipeline to Rome, and he replied: "We've better than that: we have priests, and Afghanistan has grapes...
That "European view" had been forcefully expressed two days earlier at Rome's ornate Palazzo Madama, where the nine foreign ministers of the Community had gathered for a special meeting on the Afghanistan crisis. Overcoming their own internal frictions, the ministers unanimously adopted a British-sponsored plan calling for international guarantees of Afghanistan's neutrality. In proposing the idea, Lord Carrington argued that a neutralized Afghanistan might satisfy the Soviets' concerns for their own security and permit them to withdraw their troops "without a loss of face...
Ironically, a warning comes from a dead German paratrooper. Emptying the enemy's pockets, Mowat finds an unmailed letter: "I don't expect to see Hanna and the children this year. The Führer has ordered us to hold Rome at all costs. This shouldn't be too hard if you have any idea of the kind of country here. It is made for defense and the Tommies will have to chew their way through us inch by inch, and we will surely make hard chewing for them...
...closing Mass in the Sistine Chapel, John Paul said he took satisfaction in the bishops' "clearer awareness" of the universal church. Translation: the Vatican had won on each of its eight major complaints. The handling of priestly celibacy was typical. Though Rome closed the question long ago, two liberal Dutch bishops have permitted open discussion of allowing married priests, and another bishop has said publicly that he would welcome such a change. In one of the more dramatic moments around the synod table, archtraditionalist Silvio Cardinal Oddi of the Vatican pointed a finger at each bishop in turn...
...Moscow. At a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg two weeks ago, Berlinguer introduced a resolution that condemned the Afghanistan invasion but also called upon the nine members of the European Community to preserve détente by negotiating with the Soviet Union on their own. In Rome Communist Spokesman Luciano Barca said: "We are closer to the Social Democrats of Germany and Benelux than to the party in France...