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...Peter's Square was sealed off. On a nearby avenue, while police watched intently, dozens of demonstrators cried "Shame!" and "Assassin!" Soon the object of their fury, Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, emerged from the Basilica wearing a red-and-white sash and a large smile. He had just spent 35 minutes in private with Pope John Paul...
Soviet tanks pulled stranded motorists out of six-foot snowdrifts along the Vienna-Budapest highway. Daredevil Parisians skied down the snow-blanketed steps of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur Basilica. Big Ben's famous chime was reduced to a dull thud as its bell hammer froze. Packs of hungry wolves emerged from the mountains to roam through isolated Czechoslovak villages in search of food. Across Europe last week, wind-whipped masses of frigid Siberian air, often accompanied by heavy snowstorms, sent thermometers plunging to some of the lowest levels of the past quarter of a century, paralyzing transportation, closing schools, businesses...
John Paul made references to abortion, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare during his speech at the conclusion of a Mass in the square on the steps outside St. Peter's Basilica...
During the synod, one lay Catholic, a U.S. feminist who was wearing a priest's stole, attempted to celebrate a mock Mass on an altar in St. Peter's Basilica; two Vatican guards removed her. Bizarre though the incident was, it dramatized a growing issue in U.S. Catholicism: demands of women for fuller involvement in the church. The synod fathers did allow women, including Mother Teresa of Calcutta, to attend, but only as nonvoting "auditors." Bishop Malone sought to bring the women's message to his colleagues, but lack of interest among the majority of delegates from developing nations...
During a simple ceremony in a small Renaissance palace set in the gardens behind St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Vatican Secretary of State, presided as representatives of Argentina and Chile signed copies of a document marking the end of almost six years of mediation and decades of mutual hostility. The dispute involved the Beagle Channel, which lies at the southern tip of South America. The settlement clarifies each country's territorial and water rights in the waterway and recognizes Chilean sovereignty over three main channel islands, as well as seven smaller ones...