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...conventional speculation was that Paul was giving Benelli the cardinal's hat in order to make him a prospect for election as the next Pope. Although Benelli, 56, has a wide background as an administrator and diplomat (attaché to France, Brazil, Spain; nuncio to Senegal), he lacks the pastoral experience that he will gain as archbishop in his native Tuscany, as did Paul before he took the See of Milan. In a region long under Communist influence, Benelli will have to deal at firsthand with problems ranging from unemployment to abortion reform...
...will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate one in some places. A representative of Peru's leftist regime, evidently viewing her more as a tourist than a diplomat, promised her "una gran bienvenida [a great welcome]. She will see the best...
...each of his boots rested in a strap that acted like a kind of stirrup. To go up a foot or so, Willig used a pulley system. He would move one block as high as he could reach and hoist himself up. Then he would unhitch the lower block, attach it above his head and repeat the whole procedure...
Boyce admitted using a Minox camera he said was given him by Lee to photograph some IBM cipher cards and parts of a top-secret feasibility study of a satellite system. Furthermore, Boyce said he himself had made two trips to Mexico City and met Boris Grishin, the science attaché at the Soviet embassy. The defendant acknowledged that he had received $15,000, and said that Lee had received $61,000. His main motivation in all this, Boyce maintained, was simply to "keep Lee off my back," claiming that his old friend had even threatened to have him killed...
Spence said she and Fox did not attach much significance to which three River Houses would be chosen, since she "hoped very much" to be able to rotate hot breakfasts from House to House every year...