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President Bok apparently has tried to do just that. He is giving the afternoon of October 1 off to Harvard employees who want to hear Pope John Paul II celebrate Mass on Boston Common. Moreover, a few courses have rescheduled their October 1 classes because the pope's visit and Yom Kippur fall on the same...
...thing, the city has been taking a lot of flack from Protestant groups and the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union for offering to finance even part of the Pope's multi-million dollar visit. The groups insisted that the city not pay for the papal Mass on Boston Common. The City Council, however, granted $750,000 for the Pontiff's overnight stay...
Secondly, the city has to be sure the pope is adequately protected. Thousands of security officers--from National Guardsmen to Secret Service--will line his motorcade and some will guard even the elevator he rides to a specially constructed platform on the common...
City health department officials expect 500,000 people on the Common, many of whom will be elderly, Jacobs said...
Medical care for the Pope will begin as soon as he lands at Logan Airport, when paramedics and a doctor will join his motorcade. Until his entourage leaves the South End, Boston City Hospital will be responsible for his care. When he gives the Mass on the common, Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will take responsibility for him and for any crowd emergencies. St. Elizabeth's Hospital will take care of medical problems of the papal motorcade en route to the home of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Jacobs said...