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...humor. To be a Pole, almost by definition, is to be fervently nationalistic and Roman Catholic, but Kania seems to have rechanneled his religious impulses. Explains a Bonn analyst: "It's not that he is anti-church or anti-Catholic, because no Pole is. Rather, he is a devout Communist...
...only one who knows how to make them look good yet soft," Gierek answered when relatives do that the wife of Poland's leader should not have to do laundry. And for all of Gierek's devotion to Communism, his aged mother has remained a devout Catholic. One crack making the rounds during the Pope's visit: "Gierek hopes to make the Pope a Marxist; Gierek's mother hopes the Pope will make Gierek a Catholic...
...also produced a variant sect of soft-core survivalists. They share the more moderate belief, long held by Mormons, that it is only prudent to have a year's store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold, silver coins...
...former Prime Minister Bakhtiar in a Paris suburb, the Washington slaying aroused speculation that the long arm of revolutionary vengeance had reached all the way from Iran. Police officials, so far, have no concrete evidence to link the crime to Tehran. But one thing is certain: Salahuddin was a devout believer in Khomeini's gospel of killing one's enemies...
...Star Wars there was a lot of Lucas in Luke, the wide-eyed farmboy who was always yearning for bigger things. In The Empire Yoda is his alter ego. Yoda's speeches might almost be called The Wit and Wisdom of George Lucas. Like Yoda, Lucas is a devout believer in the Force. Says Lucas: "When you are born, you have an energy field around you. You could call it an aura. An archaic description would be a halo. It is an idea that has gone all the way through history. When you die, your energy field joins...