Word: flatrock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different ways, not only lacking food but also deprived of freedom and other human rights-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialistic monopoly of economic and political supremacy at the expense of others." In the Newfoundland fishing community of Flatrock, the Pope condemned concentrations of economic power and said that key industries like food production could become "controlled by the profit motive of a few rather than by the needs of the many...
...Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos, using seven native languages ranging from Algonquin and Micmac to Mohawk and a passable Inuit (Eskimo) dialect. In the tiny Newfoundland community of Flatrock (pop. 869), John Paul blessed local codfishing boats from a seaside platform, then radioed, "Good fishing, safe passage and God's blessing" to the fishermen...
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