<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 8/2/2001 11:04:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<BR>>is the vatican a state ?
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<BR>Once, yes: The Papal States (not to mention the various papal bulls which
<BR>name the Pope of Rome as the leader of all Catholicism; I don't think
<BR>they've been retracted lately). I think Mussolini put paid to that bit of
<BR>idiocy.
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<BR>Todd
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<BR>Once? Is that why I drive by a Vatican Embassy to the US when I visit
<BR>Washington, and why the Vatican has representation on all sort of UN bodies?
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<BR>Stalin once asked how many battalions the pope had. Who is in the dustbin of
<BR>history now?
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<BR>Leo Casey
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
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<BR>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
<BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
<BR>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --
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