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...Peter the Fisherman, traveled to the waterside sanctuary of Our Lady of Lake Togo. To many of the smiling tribesmen who came to greet the white-robed visitor, the omens for the day were auspicious. That morning a 5-ft. python had slithered over a wall in the church compound. A majority of the people in the region are animists who venerate pythons. The incident, early in the Pope's seven-nation tour of Africa, indicated the huge spiritual challenges and opportunities on a continent where Christianity is rapidly winning converts without completely weaning all of them from tribal faiths...
With his wife in the car beside him, Navy Counterintelligence Analyst Jonathan Pollard drove into the Israeli embassy compound in Washington one day last week, apparently hoping to be granted political asylum. But the Pollards were intercepted by Israeli officials and promptly escorted back outside the gate, where waiting FBI agents arrested him. The charge: espionage. U.S. officials said Pollard, 31, had confessed to receiving nearly $50,000 over the past year and a half for selling classified military information, some of it top secret, to the Israeli government. He may also have sold secrets to Pakistan...
...surveillance. But according to one agent, after a couple of days Pollard "just freaked out" and called an official at the Israeli embassy. "If you can shake your surveillance," Pollard later said the Israeli told him, "you should come in." That morning Pollard and his wife drove into the compound seeking political asylum. After ten minutes they were escorted back outside into the waiting arms of FBI agents...
...keep the baby and raise it without the traditional blessings of marriage. "The shotgun marriage is a relic of the past," observes Mark Testa, of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. With teen marriages two to three times as likely to end in divorce, he explains, "parents figure, why compound their mistake?" In 1950 fewer than 15% of teen births were illegitimate. By 1983 more than half were, and in some regions of the country, the figure exceeds 75%. Unwed motherhood has become so pervasive that "we don't use the term illegitimate anymore," notes Sister Bertille Prus, executive director...
Aquino's consensus-building style was also apparent during a trip to Camp Aguinaldo, the military compound that serves as headquarters for the armed forces. There she met with about three dozen disgruntled lieutenant colonels in the air force. They complained that Aquino, who had promised to do away with military patronage, had arbitrarily promoted one of their less senior colleagues, Adelberto Yap, to full colonel status ahead of them. The President reportedly attempted to assuage the officers' feelings and agreed to study the issue of Yap's promotion...