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POPE JOHN PAUL II, renowned world traveler, took a stroll in his own Italian backyard this weekend. The occasion: a papal mission to the bullet-riddled Sicilian city of Palermo. His visit came in the aftermath of one of the most outrageous acts of cold-blooded civic slaughter in recent memory. In a speech at the Piazza Palitearna, the Pope cautiously sympathized with Palermo's anguished citizens. "Facts of barbarous violence, which for too long a time have bloodied the strengths of this splendid city, offend human dignity...
...line. During the Red Brigade campaign. Dalla Chiesa kept on the move all the time, never sleeping in the same place for more than one night: But in Palermo, the routines changed drastically; in order to be among the townspeople, to inspire confidence and a sense of civic security, Dalla Chiesa led a highly visible and regular lifestyle. He could be seen many an afternoon, cheat out, in lightly colored tailored suit and shades boldly swaggering down the streets of Palermo--the Gary Cooper of Sicily. He felt sure no one would dare strike such a popular figure, and thus...
...bishops on social issues have increased enormously in recent years. The bishops or their spokesmen have issued at least 200 statements since 1966, when the hierarchy reorganized itself into two bodies: the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, a strictly ecclesiastical body, and the U.S. Catholic Conference, the civic and service agency of the bishops. Depending on the issue, the bishops may sound like sanitized Moral Majoritarians or Kennedy Democrats. Besides familiar stands (for tuition tax credits to help private-school parents; against mercy killing, sleazy TV shows and the religious vacuum in public schools), the bishops have taken distinctly liberal...
...bizarre last scene. The dull appearance of the Civic Center was not much relieved by Rocky-style bunting tacked over a small ring. Eight or ten thousand spectators contributed a dollar or two admission price to charity. They savaged M.C. Howard Cosell, who demanded, "All right, quiet!" And they serenaded Muhammad Ali, who looked like the winner of a pie-eating contest...
...Civic Center soliloquy-"beauty is"-Leonard made sure to mention that besides Juanita, whom he married in 1980, little Ray and the rest of his family and friends, beauty is also "Fort Knox," "selling 7-Up" and "Sugar Ray Leonard...