home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Time - Man of the Year
/
Time_Man_of_the_Year_Compact_Publishing_3YX-Disc-1_Compact_Publishing_1993.iso
/
moy
/
100592
/
10059910.000
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1993-04-08
|
1KB
|
33 lines
THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDEt Cetera
THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
Although 90% of all Mexicans claim to be Roman Catholic, the
church in Mexico hasn't officially existed for most of the past
131 years. Revolutionary heroes severed all ties to the Vatican
as punishment for Catholic support of the landed elite and
European intervention. Last week Mexican and church officials
finally re-established diplomatic relations. "It is the end of
an archaic debate," Nobel-prizewinning poet Octavio Paz told the
local press. "We have problems too immense to be wasting our
time with problems that are a hangover from the last century."
WAR IS NOT HEALTHY
No matter whom history finally blames for the Gulf War,
Iraq's children have suffered most. A report in the New England
Journal of Medicine, issued by doctors at eminent institutions
including the Harvard School of Public Health, says that
mortality tripled among children ages five and under as a
consequence of the war itself and the trade sanctions that
preceded and followed it. That comes to nearly 47,000 additional
kids who died between January and August 1991 -- the result of
decisions made mostly by adult men.