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After suffering a mild scare last year in a similar situation, Crimson Co-Captains Kristin Bland and Cyndy Austrian made sure there would be no letdown this year...
...With unity being our biggest asset, we know we can beat anybody if we all work together as a team," Austrian said. "We were determined not to have a letdown today...
...Dade County Cultural Center, John Paul held another sensitive meeting, this time with 196 American Jewish leaders. The Pope had seen several of the dignitaries the previous week in Rome, in a bid to calm the Jewish outrage that followed his June audience with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. The Rome meeting failed to mollify two major organizations of U.S. Orthodox Jews, which boycotted last week's Miami session. But for those who attended, the meeting radiated conciliation...
...that relationship began in 1965, with the Second Vatican Council's decree denouncing anti-Semitism. But the Holy See still does not recognize Israel. And there have been other disputes, none more charged than the angry Jewish reaction to the audience John Paul granted to Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in June. Waldheim has been accused of complicity in Nazi war crimes and consequently is unwelcome in numerous Western nations, including the U.S. The Vatican argues that declining to receive Waldheim would have been tantamount to judging him guilty.* Dismayed that John Paul made no mention of the Holocaust during Waldheim...
FOOTNOTE: *Last week a government-authorized Austrian commission of six international military historians, including an Israeli and an American, held its first meeting to review the Waldheim accusations. The panel is to report within three months...