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...President managed to turn the trip into a diplomatic double play. For 31 hours, he patiently waited in Fairbanks in order to cross paths with Pope John Paul II, whose plane was refueling there en route to South Korea (see WORLD). Posing with the Pontiff behind a lectern bearing the Presidential Seal, Reagan told a crowd of 5,000 standing in a cold drizzle that his trip to China had been a "long journey for peace." After the two leaders met privately in an airport lounge for 20 minutes, the Pope dropped Reagan off at Air Force One and returned...
...overshadows Confucianism. The welcoming ceremony for the Pontiff was sedate, since Seoul's airport had been swept virtually clean of onlookers. Extraordinary security preparations, caused in part by assassination threats, were everywhere evident-and perhaps necessary. Sunday morning, three days after his arrival, the Pope was en route to Seoul's Myong Dong Cathedral when a deranged-looking young man dashed out from the crowd and, assuming a shooter's crouch about 35 ft. from John Paul's bulletproof car, brandished what looked like a handgun. An alert policeman fired one shot into the roadway...
...En route to Guam, Air Force One flight attendants handed out Taiwanese chopsticks ("A mistake," said a White House spokesman). The President slipped on a cool white guayabera shirt, while Nancy looked rather like an empress in her maroon lounging robe. As soon as Air Force One cut through the cloud cover and roared down toward Peking's airport, though, the balmy Pacific interlude was unquestionably over. The Chinese afternoon was dark and unseasonably chilly 54° F). Still, Reagan bounded coatless out of the 707, looking cheery as ever. The 19-mile drive into Peking must have been...
Development of the islands is hampered by the "Falklands factor," the eight weeks that it takes for supplies to be ordered and to arrive from Britain. A memorial in honor of the 277 British soldiers who died in the Falklands war remains unfinished because polished stones were damaged en route. But distance is not the only excuse. Local officials have yet to set up an agency to allocate the nearly $44 million from Parliament for the development of the islands. Half of the 54 three-bedroom prefabricated houses that were built at a cost of $187,000 each to relieve...
...Harvard baseball team took its Brush Hill Sightseeing Shuttle across Cambridge yesterday. Here's what the Crimson saw en route to the 9-7 victory over MIT that lifted Harvard's record to 19-3 overall, 5-1 in the Greater Boston League...