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Vatican sources emphatically denied any such motivation. The Pope's decision, they said, stemmed from his general views on the separation of church and state. John Paul has repeatedly said the church and its clergy must stay aloof from party strife. In Mexico in January 1979 he said: "The church wishes to stay free with regard to the competing [political] systems, in order to opt only for man." These views presumably reflect the fact that one reason the church in John Paul's native Poland has been able to thrive is that it has kept strictly apart from...
...conference participants generally agreed on the causes and cures of what they see as the coming economic holocaust. The reasons, they noted, ranged from oil-fueled inflation and the weak dollar to labor strife, excessive regulation, inadequate government-business cooperation and, most of all, slumping productivity brought on by too little investment in research and equipment. Among the most popular suggested solutions: more labor-business-government dialogues and more effort to halt the flood of regulation. The participants favored cuts in business and personal income taxes to spur individual savings and corporate investment, even if it meant that the federal...
...take such action now? Carter said he had decided that "the Iranian authorities could not or would not resolve this crisis on their own initiative." He noted "the steady unraveling of authority in Iran and the mounting dangers that were posed to the safety of the hostages." Indeed, factional strife between leftist students who had occupied universities in Iran and Muslim authorities seeking to remove them had broken into violent rioting and bloodshed on a dozen campuses. When it finally subsided last week, the clashes with clubs, cleavers and daggers had left 60 students dead and nearly 2,000 wounded...
...turnaround at Tarrytown grew out of the realization by local management and union representatives that inefficiencies and industrial strife threatened the plant's continued operation. Automakers sometimes use forced plant closings caused by sluggish auto sales to unload a lemon facility. Ford, for example, decided two weeks ago to shut the gates of its huge Mahwah, N. J., plant largely because it had a poor quality record. After Tarrytown lost a truck production facility in 1971, bosses and workers became fearful for their jobs and got together to find better ways to build cars. At first hesitantly but later...
...French, Venezuelan, Costa Rican, Panamanian and Spanish embassies. I reported on the burning of the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City. Once it was skyjacking. Now it's the seizure of a foreign embassy, that sacrosanct piece of land where a foreign flag casts a shadow and local political strife stops at the door -or used...