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None of this seems to touch the well-insulated Mr. Saravelas. When I walked into his office two Thursdays ago, I mistakenly sat in his large black chair. Accommodatingly, Saravelas insisted I remain there, and began to expound on his agency in the most fluent bureaucratese: "Our big emphasis for '73 will be on working more cooperatively with existing agencies and on trying to influence them to reallocate their resources," he began. "Basically, we have concentrated on a direct service approach, but now we're moving into forming coalitions with other groups to effect systems changes." (He failed to mention...
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...Italian descent and speaks fluent Italian, had hopes that he would be received by Pope Paul VI. He had also intended to chat with President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale, negotiate with leaders of Italian industry and then receive lesser lights from the Holy See, the government and the financial community. None of it happened. The Pope did not grant an audience; the reason, a Vatican spokesman told Perón, was "because of interpretations that could be given such a meeting." President Leone, who had enough free time to preside over a reception for film stars (including Richard Burton...
Arriving at New York's Kennedy Airport last week, they did not look much different from other passengers. The men wore business suits; the women were dressed in slacks or saris. Most of them spoke fluent English. But they were very special travelers: 82 Asians who had been peremptorily ordered out of Uganda by Strongman Idi Amin Dada, even though they were all citizens. Suddenly made stateless, they constituted the first wave of a group of 1,000 refugees that the U.S. has agreed to accept...
...Roman Catholic Mass. The principal celebrant, a graying, robust man whose lean, lined face seemed at home in the crowd of Polish worshipers, was John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia. Krol's father had come from Poland, and the cardinal won the crowd immediately by addressing them in fluent, if accented Polish. "I was never a prisoner in a concentration camp," he said. "I was never captured or exiled. I never suffered [your] scourges. I bow my head...