Editorials.

The article presents political updates from the world, as of June 23, 1997. "Healing" and "closure" were the two most frequently uttered convictions by a Denver, Colorado, jury of eleven counts of murder and conspiracy for the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. So universal was the desire to find some solace in the McVeigh verdict that practically no mention was made of the political culture that inspired his brutal truck bombing. According to another update, the French people have rejected the ruling conservative coalition, which promised progress but practiced austerity, and have given the personally honest and truthful politician Lionel Jospin a mandate, though not a blank check, for change. Jospin was then asked to form a: government because his Socialist Party, with 246 deputies is by far the biggest in a National Assembly of 577 members.