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...synod will meet in an ultramodern Vatican conference room. John Paul, who plans to attend most of the plenary sessions, has appointed a balanced slate of three presiding cardinals: Johannes Willebrands, 76, a Dutch ecumenist who is president of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity; John Krol of Philadelphia, 75, a conservative on ecclesiastical matters; and Joseph Malula of Zaďre, 67, a symbol of the Third World, which accounts for three-fifths of both the synod delegates and the globe's 825 million Catholics...
During his time in the Secretariat, he has hardly proved a competent official willing to take political chances to save innocents’ lives. As head of the U.N.’s peacekeeping operations, his intentionally muddled directives made for confusion amidst blue helmets in Bosnia, leaving them unable to militarily defend towns that were designated as “safe zones.” His failure to clarify this language, even after he was asked to by several commanders, led Dutch peacekeepers in Srebrenica to simply stay inside their barracks, rather than stop the Bosnian Serb military from...
...Labor frontbencher is interviewed on Perth radio, there's a good chance that within a few hours the relevant minister will be responding to the remarks; if a prominent commentator criticizes the government, that will also be passed back to Canberra and duly noted. Less surreptitiously, the Government Members Secretariat in Parliament House churns out material for coalition M.P.s and grooms them for the media...
...produced in Africa. Three decades after the concept of Pan-Africanism fizzled out, satellite television is working where liberation philosophy did not: connecting and modernizing the world's poorest continent. "There is an integrating aspect to television," says David Mafabi, director of political affairs at the moribund Uganda-based Secretariat of the Pan-African Movement. "Shows like this may be superficial, but they show Africans coming together in a way that's often ahead of governments." For now, that kind of integration is available only to wealthy - and, in the case of Big Brother, English-speaking - Africans. Although millions...
...member states and this would jeopardize the trust between them." Virulent opposition to the plan prompted a classic Brussels response: a marathon negotiating session at which the most controversial proposals were either removed or diluted. Gone was the European Congress, as well as the suggestion for a presidential secretariat that critics feared would have rivaled the Commission. Reijo Kemppinen, a spokesman for the Commission, concluded that the result was not quite a "working document" but a "useful working basis." But resentment toward Giscard's high-handed tactics is still rife. "We spent months doing nothing but talking about trivial matters...