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...been meeting daily with various Cardinals. Despite the good prognosis for full recovery that followed last week's operation, nagging doubts remained about the future of John Paul's papacy. He has made no secret of the fact that he would rather serve as pastor to a far-flung flock than face the daily grind of church business. Vatican officials wonder what he will do if he is no longer able to carry on those winning, globetrotting ways that have helped him dramatize to the world a conservative and sometimes unpopular vision of the church. Because...
Though Houstonians had always assumed that Wiggins had a silent partner for his far-flung ventures, it now turns out, according to bank lawyers, that his unwitting sugar daddy was none other than Allied itself. By using a paper shuffle involving financial notes called bankers' acceptances, Wiggins, starting in the early 1970s, helped himself to $16.7 million from Allied's international department, say the lawyers. Says Barbara Hecker, 39, a former girlfriend: "I used to ask him why he stayed on at the bank when it seemed he could make so much more money raising and selling cattle...
...Roman Catholic Church is a far-flung hierarchy, ruled from the top. As Pope, John Paul II runs both Vatican and church with imperial power. But the autonomous city-state from which he governs is one of the oldest and most organized bureaucracies. If the Pope dies, administrative power goes automatically to the Vatican's Camerlengo, or Chamberlain, until a new Pope is elected. But when a Pope is sick or traveling, command goes to the Secretary of State, in this case Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, 66, the church's top diplomatic negotiator and the Pope's hand...
...more than ever, the U.S. needs the help of its allies in the complicated task of reinforcing Western security. It needs the British and the West Germans to shoulder more of the defense of Europe, so that the U.S. can concentrate on the Persian Gulf and other far-flung trouble spots. It needs French help in combatting the Libyans and other international muggers in sub-Saharan Africa. It needs the Japanese to assist in shoring up the security of the Pacific. These alliances are already strained, and there is plenty of blame to go around. American leadership has been erratic...
...which he earned high marks even from rival Democrats. One of his proudest accomplishments was improving the efficiency of the Illinois State Fair which indicates the vast jump that he must make from the 806-employee state agency he headed to the U.S.D.A., with its 141,000 employees and far-flung operations involving issues such as international grain sales and the role of farm products in diplomacy. On these last matters, Block will take office with firm beliefs. He argues that food is America's greatest diplomatic weapon and will continue to be so "as other countries become more...