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...second half, Munro played his reserves quite liberally. After two Yehia tallies ballooned the score to 7-0. Nick Hallet, a sophomore forward, scored the ast goa midway into the third quarter, last goal midway into the third quarer, soccer...
...fourth papal journey outside Italy,* Paul announced, was to seek Mary's "intercession in favor of the peace of the church and of the world." The Vatican denied suggestions that the Pope was also making amends to Portugal for his visit to India following its conquest of Portuguese Goa, insisting that the trip would be "completely private" and "rapidissimo." Despite the disclaimer, the Portuguese were ecstatic...
...issue at hand was whether Goa, after 451 years of Portuguese rule and five years as a semiautonomous "union territory" of India, should give up its separate identity and become part of teeming Maharashtra state (pop. 39.5 million). The decision was to be made by Goan voters in an "opinion poll" conducted by the Indian government, and the two goddesses did not have the field entirely to themselves. Opposing the merger were the leaders of Goa's 250,000 Roman Catholics, a powerful force in themselves. "Think Goan," pleaded priests from their pulpits, while Catholic politicians of the United...
...Catholics were fighting to hold on to the preferential status accorded them by the Portuguese and continued by the Indian government after "union." Many Goan Hindus, on the other hand, have relatives in Maharashtra, and most speak a dialect of the Marathi language. But the determining question was whether Goa should cease to exist. In exchange for the territory's own legislature, established three years ago by New Delhi, all the promerger forces could offer were four seats in the Maharashtra state assembly, a pitiful representation...
...territorial capital of Panjim, the results were cheered by a crowd of 10,000, who danced in the streets carrying branches symbolic of victory, set off firecrackers, and created such a joyous disturbance that the government had to call in police with tear gas to restore order. Goa is not yet gone...