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...remarkable man. An ex-U.S. Marine. A Vietnam veteran. A Jesuit-trained polemicist with what he proudly claimed was the first college degree in futurism. In his workaday job, he was paid by SRI International to peer into the future and tell corporate clients how to prepare for the 21st century...
...about his chances of succeeding John Paul, Lustiger replies, "Me? Totally excluded. Out of the question." Lustiger fidgets silently with his breviary in its brown leather case, then suddenly announces, "I had a dream. I dreamed that the President of the United States was black, the President of the ex-U.S.S.R. was a Muslim -- and the Pope was Chinese. And in my dream I asked God to let me die before that day would come. Because if ever we had a Chinese Pope" -- he clenches his fist and makes a screw-turning gesture -- "they know what administration...
Before an audience of 300, the ex-U.S. Senator, now a State Department Counselor for Global Issues, stressed the importance of reproductive and human rights for women as a solution for the population boom...
...greatest comebacks in history. By April 23, plans for the first new downtown building were published, and others followed at a dizzying pace. They moved so fast that within weeks about 1,000 makeshift saloons were doing business and political fighting had broken out again. Ex- Mayor (also ex-Governor and ex-U.S. Senator) James Phelan, who lost a fortune in the disaster, led an attack on the corrupt municipal government with one hand and with the other helped get the reconstruction moving. Checks drawn on San Francisco banks were all but useless right after the quake, but within...
...time of his capture Higgins, a native of Kentucky and a former aide to ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, was returning from a meeting with a local leader of the Shi'ite Amal militia. The incident was a major embarrassment for Amal Leader Nabih Berri, Lebanon's Justice Minister. Amal, along with U.N. peacekeeping forces, immediately launched a manhunt for Higgins and his abductors...