Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, John Paul spoke to the women inmates of the prison about what had happened on this "historic day." Said the Pontiff: "In the context of Christmas and the Holy Year of Redemption, I was able to meet with the person that you all know by name, Ali Agca, who in the year 1981 on the 13th of May made an attempt on my life. But Providence took things in its own hands, in what I would call an extraordinary way, so that today after two years I was able to meet my assailant and repeat to him the pardon...
That encounter was not, however, meant to administer the Catholic sacrament of penance. Mehmet Ali Agca's education in his own faith, Islam, apparently is spotty, but he probably has a general awareness of its teaching that God will weigh each person's deeds on the Day of Judgment. A practicing Muslim invokes the Almighty's mercy during the five prescribed daily prayer sessions. But for John Paul, penance and absolution have very precise meanings. Penance is one of the Catholic Church's seven sacraments. Baptized Catholics, before receiving Communion, are required to confess contritely...
...Kohl defeated opponents who had made the acceptance of American missile emplacements a major issue. In the U.S., Democrats are decrying what they view as Reagan's excessively hard-line policy toward the Soviets. Even the Pope's travels were overshadowed by new, although inconclusive, evidence that Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist who shot the Pope in 1981, had been aided by the Bulgarian secret service, presumably backed by the Soviet KGB?which was at the time headed by Andropov...
...play will surely get some questions rolling in your mind-- Is equality possible? Have we progressed from the days of Ali Baba?--but it does not fulfill all its other duties as a piece of art. The live music played onstage is melodically enchanting: a synthesizer, harmonium, tambours, tors, but fails in its overall desired effect, costumes are also intriguing parts of a production that sets up a good plot, has lively and talented actors, but fails in its overall desired effect...
...honor a self-conscious "publishing event": a 616-page special issue of Esquire, hailing "50 Americans who made the difference." In attendance were some of the issue's glittery contributors, including Norman Mailer, William Whittle and Kurt Vonnegut back subjects, Polio Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Pollster George Gallup and Feminist Betty Friedan. Perhaps the central figures, however, were Phillip Moffitt, 37, and Christopher Whittle, 36, the Tennesseans who bought out investors including then Editor Clay Felker for a reported $3.5 million in 1979, when Esquire was losing $25,000 a day. Chairman Whittle...