By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. officials "need to be alert" to China's growing influence in Latin
America, especially the role its intelligence services are playing, a
senior Pentagon policy-maker told a House panel yesterday.
The testimony from Roger Pardo-Mauer, deputy assistant secretary of
defense for Western Hemisphere affairs, comes as China is attempting to
exercise more influence in the United States' back yard. Beijing has
sought closer ties with Fidel Castro's Cuba, controls shipping ports in
Central America and may be gathering intelligence in the region as it
has done in the United States for years, officials have said.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050406-114055-9788r.htm

Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Friday, April 8, 2005
Perhaps no event more animated Pope John Paul II than a series of
claimed appearances of the Virgin Mary during the early part of the 20th
century in Fatima, Portugal.
In NewsMax Magazine's recent special report on John Paul II – "The
Pope's Final Battle In These End Times" – we explore the Pope's unusual
relationship with these supernatural events. [For more info Click Here.
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