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...said. The traditionalist priest, however, then went on to insist the group was opposed to the Pope's dialogue with other religions, and said he was "scandalized" by Benedict's prayer at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Earlier in the week, a Lefebvrist priest in Treviso Floriano Abrahamowicz, reportedly rekindled the holocaust-denial controversy when he was quoted as saying, "I know gas chambers existed at least to disinfect, I can't say if anybody was killed in them or not." (On Friday, Williamson posted a letter online apologizing to the Pope for his "imprudent phrases." The Vatican offered...
Most important, the government knows how to tap the energy of the people. In some communities of former squatters outside the routes of sanitation trucks, residents take their own garbage to designated sites and in exchange receive bags of surplus vegetables from the city. A woman named Lindamir Vas Floriano says that before this so-called green-exchange program, her hilly neighborhood was completely carpeted with trash and plagued by disease. Now the area is almost litter free, and the people are noticeably healthier...
...Floriano DeArego, a New Bedford carpenter who arrived from St. Michael in the Azores eleven years ago at the age of seventeen, has a highly positive attitude toward the ceremony. "It makes me belong to the country. I don't want to live here and just say I'm in the United States. I want to be part of it." DeArego, who could speak only Portuguese when he came here, says he had no difficulty picking up English, "When you want to learn something you can learn it. I had to. I worked with American people...
...shoulders from Constellation to open Cadillac. Kubitschek rode triumphantly down Rio's streets, trailed by trucks and buses jammed with cheering fans. Beside him sat blue-eyed Julia Kubitschek, 83. weeping happily at the homage paid to her only son. In Rio's parklike Prac.a Floriano, decorated with strings of blue lights, the President-elect listened patiently to ten welcoming speeches. Cheers and firecrackers punctuated his own 25-minute speech. "Promises made will be kept," he vowed. Meanwhile, preparations went ahead for this week's inauguration ceremonies. On the program is a banquet for 2,500 guests...
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