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...familiar to the world. The 112 Cardinal-electors again received the summons to Rome, their trip made easier by the fact that Rome airport employees broke off their strike in respect for the Pontiff. The conclave to choose John Paul's successor will begin on the second earliest day permitted?Oct. 14. The Latin American bishops' conference, a once-a-decade meeting scheduled to begin Oct. 12 in Puebla, Mexico, meanwhile, was postponed. Though John Paul had decided not to attend, the meeting would have given the first clues to the policy of his newborn pontificate...
...good to know that even 20th century man, with all his technology, cannot feel complacent about his world. He can still gaze heavenward and feel the same sense of awe and wonder experienced by earliest man, in all his ignorance...
Kerry Sieh, 27, a Caltech geologist, bases his prediction on Southern California's earthquake history, which until recently was quite sketchy; the earliest reported quake, an apparently minor temblor described by a Spanish explorer, was chronicled in 1769. Seeking evidence of earlier quakes, Sieh in 1974 began a painstaking tour of hundreds of miles of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California. The following year, under an ancient marsh that straddles the fault 88 km (55 miles) northeast of downtown Los Angeles, he struck pay dirt...
...widespread concern, the agency has consistently refused to invoke an emergency suspension system, which would ban the use of the herbicide pending further evidence. Instead, the agency holds to an unreasonably stringent standard of evidence. Warnick admits revised regulations will not be issued until April 1979 at the earliest. Like its bureaucratic counterpart at the V.A., the EPA plays a waiting game...
...several band members died in a plane crash which terminated Skynyrd's ascent to the forefront of Southern and probably American rock. Left behind, broken and in disarray, were the rest of the band and a collection of tapes made in 1970 which were some of the group's earliest songs...