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...Cardinals were so exuberant at the election of the new Pontiff that they rushed up to the stove themselves and stuffed in their personal notes and tally sheets, igniting the paper with black flares. A white signal had already gone up, but now the Cardinalitial enthusiasm caused the chimney to belch bursts of black and gray smoke, keeping the crowd in St. Peter's Square guessing for the hour it took for John Paul to make his first appearance...
...more than an hour, confusion reigned in St. Peter's Square. When the smoke first began to curl out of a temporary rooftop chimney from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel at 6:24 p.m. on Saturday, it looked white?the traditional color to signal that the secret conclave within had elected a Pope. But could it be true? Not likely?not on the opening day of the largest, most complex gathering of Cardinal electors in the long pageant of papal elections. Sure enough, with dusk beginning to enfold the splendid statues and pillars of the Bernini colonnade, the smoke turned...
...next morning the balloting began, and as the basilica bells were still pealing the noontime Angelus, the first puff of smoke wafted from the chapel chimney: black. Nine minutes later, more black smoke billowed forth, then seemed to turn white, then black again. False alarm. After the morning's first two ballots, Vatican Radio announced, there was no decision...
...damp October night in 18 -when the wind howled like a child in the chimney. In those days Sherlock Holmes kept a child in the chimney for comparison purposes...
Because of the heightened tensions, both sides overreacted to what normally would have been considered a rather minor incident. Two weeks ago, American construction workers discovered listening devices, including a dish-shaped antenna, in a chimney of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. At the base of the chimney, the workers found a tunnel, which they followed to a nearby Soviet apartment building. They caught a brief glimpse of a fleeing Russian, who had been monitoring listening equipment, then realized that they were on Soviet soil T?or, rather, beneath Soviet soil 5?and retreated. Administration officials called the incident "particularly...