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...miter-capped army, the Cardinals in scarlet bringing up the rear. More than 2,600 bishops, the largest such gathering in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, took seats on 330-ft.-long bleachers in St. Peter's Basilica and craned like schoolboys for a view of the farmer's son who had called them here to ... talk. About what? "About everything," one prelate predicted. "And a few things besides...
...White House aides was, nearly everyone agreed, clearly a windfall of immense proportions for the Democratic Party. And it was: in the 1974 midterm elections that gave the Democrats huge Congressional gains--43 House seats and three Senate seats--and in the unlikely elevation of a peanut farmer and Washington outsider named Jimmy Carter to the Presidency two years later. In the long term, however, Watergate proved to be more of a boon for Republicans as it helped convince Americans of a bedrock conservative tenet: government is not to be trusted, the people in power in Washington...
...Outside, Mitchell links up with Lieut. Robert Carnahan and two six-man squads from White Platoon carrying M-16s, heavy SAWs (squad automatic weapons) and 240-Bravo machine guns. Flanking them are three Bradley fighting vehicles. Mitchell, 34, briefs his men that a passing farmer has told a sentry about 10 men sweeping around for an ambush. On his command, the Americans run north through the choking red dust and throw themselves on the ground against a nearby railway track. "Jesus, we can't see s___!" says Carnahan. The squads hold their positions as the Bradleys scan the area with...
...expert in the treatment of tuberculosis and HIV, Farmer pioneered new methods in which health care workers personally oversee and monitor individual patients...
...Farmer said he intends to donate the money to PIH, but he reassured Heinz that he would heed her advice...