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...its refusal to see the priesthood as "an office of serving and not an exercise in sacred narcissism...
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...relations with other nations, or that the secretary of the treasury would become the United States' foremost foreign-policy troubleshooter...
...Her trave l s - h e r very presence in Rwanda, for example---draw attention to the precarious state of peace in many parts of the world...
...p. 22, George Abbott...
...rescue of the Mexican economy, investment bankers will heave a sigh of relief...
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...But what of Rwanda...
...What about NATO...
...Earlier he managed the New York chapter of cIsP~ (Committee in Support of the People of E1 Salvador...
...Bishop Stecher also criticizes the pope's refusal to consider reconciliation with men who have left the priesthood, making the teachings of Jesus subordinate to "ecclesiastic administrative practices," all of which, he says, ends in undermining papal authority...
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...The Congress, specifically Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C...
...When the Soviet Empire collapsed and with it cold-war diplomacy, who expected U.S...
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...Bah, Humbug: Were we too tough (December 19, 1997) on the Vatican's recent document "Some Questions Regarding Collaboration of Nonordained Faithful in Priests' Sacred Ministry...
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...and its "tendency to value human rules...more highly than the divine commission...
...A broader vision is needed...
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...Her continuing negotiations with Israel and the Palestinian Authority may yet achieve a kind of stability on the West Bank...
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...Gregory's resum4 announces that he is a "results-oriented coordinator and problemsolver with extensive experience in the political nonprofit sector and academia...
...Not as tough as Bishop Reinhold Stecher of Innsbruck, Austria...
...Even so, it is dismaying that dollar diplomacy garners the attention of the best minds in Washington and sets the priorities for our policy on everything else...
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...Why is that...
...The "Instruction" was signed by the heads of eight Vatican offices, including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger...
...and the Middle East simmers over the Oslo Accords, the state of near-war with Iraq, and the ambiguous re-emergence of Iran...
...And so will many ordinary Americans who have come to accept that the stability of their jobs, the value of their pensions, and the performance of the U.S...
...and that, in extreme cases, actually supports the Herculean task of peacemaking...
...He's computer-literate, commands several languages, has done press relations, fundraising, office management, etc...
...A world in ever greater need of cooperation and collaboration can ill-afford to have the U.S...
...Congress thumbing its nose at the one body that can, at least, deliberate about genocide...
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...foreign policy would be monopolized by trade issues or high-wire rescues of sinking economies...
...that helps foster economic cooperation...
...Back in Washington, it's all checks and no balances...
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...Who could have foreseen the extent to which the Treasury Department would eclipse the State Department in the intricate business of managing U.S...
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...No one could have predicted the aftermath of the cold war...
...It was a missed opportunity to clarify for the American people why those troops are going to be there for some time to come---because peacemaking is a long and arduous undertaking...
...And many other nations in the throes of political and cultural upheaval...
...If events in Korea follow the scenario of the U.S...
...Of course, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is very visible, and very active, almost hyperactive...
...At the same time, slaughter goes on in Rwanda...
...To this squadron of ecclesiastical combatants, Bishop Stecher seems to respond by concluding: "For the sake of the church it must not be that the very top is concerned with every splinter at the base, but doesn't see the beam in its own eye...
...relations with the United Nation are tense and difficult because of congressional refusal to pay our long-delayed dues...
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...President Bill Clinton never promised to be a foreign-policy president, a promise he has kept...
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...And the rest of us seek a reasonably clear idea of our country's goals and guidelines vis-?z-vis the rest of the world...
...What about the future of South Africa as Nelson Mandela steps back from center stage...
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...The classic tasks of foreign policy--information gathering, analysis, negotiat i o n - s t i l l must be carried on...
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...knowing the value of the Korean won is part of that...
...economy are increasingly exposed to the ups and downs of the global economy--that is, to what happens in Korea, Thailand, Mexico, Japan...
...We seem to be managing at the economic level, but at the political level there is drift and indecision...
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...The anxiety over Korea is understandable economic stability is perforce a necessary focus of U.S...
...Don't their troubled situations merit the attention of policy makers and the American people...
...Interdependence comes in many forms and carries many responsibilities...
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...His Christmas visit to Bosnia was an opportunity both to state policy and shape opinion...
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...That discipline and those convictions are gone for good...
...the fractious Bosnians busily unravel international efforts to repair their social fabric...
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...Are Russia and its myriad levels of complicated politics receiving the sustained attention they deserve...
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...The cold war supplied a kind of discipline, a set of convictions about who conducted foreign policy and how...
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Vol. 125 • January 1998 • No. 1
