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Other possibilities include Former Chilean President Eduardo Frei; Ceylon's U.N. Ambassador Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe; former U.N. Ambassador Endalkachew Makonnen of Ethiopia; and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan of Iran, uncle of the Aga Khan and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. When the points are added up, however, it is hard to beat the score of a certain soft-spoken Asian who comes from a small, neutral, underdeveloped country that recognizes Peking, who has kept on reasonably good terms with both superpowers, and who reflects what one diplomat calls "a comfortable level of mediocrity." As a result, some believe that...
Today the order numbers more than 600 nuns, most of them Indians. They operate 26 centers for the poor in Calcutta alone, 70 more in other cities in India, and homes in Ceylon, Tanzania, Jordan, Venezuela, Great Britain and Australia-as well as the one in Rome. As for Mother Teresa herself, who at 60 is back in India and is an Indian citizen, she still spends much of her time working the orders regular 16-hour day among the dying at the gate of the temple of Kali...
...Ceylon was the last stop, and a surprising one. There the Pope was greeted by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and a crowd of at least 500,000. The country's highest ranking Buddhist monk was on hand to declare that the Pope's visit "will help all us Ceylonese to live like brothers." In his reply, Paul diplomatically praised the country's "courageous social policy...
Many problems facing the church in Asian countries today stem as much from changing social and cultural conditions as they do from traditional antinomies. In Ceylon, where the nation's 880,000 Roman Catholics constitute 7% of the population, the government's vigorous nationalization efforts since independence have worked against the church: all but a few dozen Catholic schools have had to close as the government has consolidated public education...
...health of the Pope holds up, the heavy pace will continue: Western Samoa, via Pago Pago, on Sunday; Australia on Monday; Djakarta Thursday; Hong Kong Friday morning, and Colombo, Ceylon, Friday evening on the way back to Rome. What does he hope to accomplish in return for such a grueling schedule? "It will stimulate missionary activity and broaden understanding with other religions in the service of progress and peace," he said in his farewell speech in Rome. But more than ever before, various aspects of the Pope's traveling plans have been criticized by the press and even...