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...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 was a reminder of the great variety of opinion that now exists within world Catholicism...
...Quite a contrast to when commuters gathered in what we called 'The Black Hole of Calcutta'!" said Bob Fischelis, the last head of Dudley before it became a house...
TIME correspondents covered some of the same ground in reporting on Lean's 42-year career. New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis went to Calcutta to interview Victor Banerjee before the actor flew to Los Angeles to join Lean at Passage's premiere. Says Brelis: "There was a strong sense of old India. The Banerjee home and garden, in the center of the overcrowded city, is in fact extremely private, surrounded by a high wall." In Sydney, TIME'S Tim Dare talked to Actress Judy Davis about Lean's "volatile" directorial style. Reporter John Wright tracked...
Union Carbide was first incorporated in India 50 years ago, when it began manufacturing batteries in Calcutta. The Indian subsidiary was allowed to stay on after independence from Britain and is one of the few firms in India in which the parent company is permitted to hold a majority interest, in this case 50.9%. Union Carbide has long enjoyed the favor of an Indian government eager to encourage sophisticated industry and develop the "Green Revolution" in agriculture, of which pesticides are an important ingredient. When the company built a small pesticide plant outside Bhopal in 1969, the project was approved...
Even after four years in politics, Rajiv remains uncomfortable before large, unruly crowds. He disdains the sycophancy of public life in India. When told that he was to ride in a gilded chariot to a party conference in Calcutta last December, he refused and went by automobile instead...