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...headquarters of the revolution were in a highly improbable setting: the Alavi elementary school in the bazaar section of Tehran where Khomeini lived. There, in two cramped and dingy rooms on the second floor, he would shuffle to the window a dozen times a day to greet the unending sea of believers who came to hail him. Elsewhere in the same school, in a drab classroom furnished with three desks, a file cabinet and a typewriter, Prime Minister Bazargan ran the government. He sat cross-legged on a rug-covered wooden platform where he took his meals, greeted visitors...
...polyester suit. He was sitting behind a bulbous steel microphone, the type that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...
...walked, arms extended, off the aircraft and quickly fell to his knees to kiss the Mexican soil. The first people to greet him were Mexico's President José López Portillo and his wife. Under the nation's anticlerical protocol, the Pope was an "unofficial" guest, and the President gave him a handshake instead of a warm Latin embrace. No matter. It seemed as if at least half of the 13 million people who live in greater Mexico City had turned out to welcome him with an overwhelming display of warmth. Along his motor route, there...
...site for a papal visit, Mexico abounds with historical paradox. So ingrained is anticlericalism in this overwhelmingly Catholic land that President Lopez Portillo was under considerable pressure not to see the Pope at all, much less greet him upon his arrival. Under Mexican law, John Paul could have been fined for wearing clerical garb in public. Of course, that law is now winked at, as are constitutional provisions that prohibit the church from operating schools and priests from saying anything about political matters...
...began. Here the first missionaries to the Americas recited Mass in 1494 during Columbus' second voyage, and here were built the first cathedral and convent in the Western Hemisphere. At the airport, the white-clad Pontiff knelt to kiss the ground. Unexpectedly, four U.S. Cardinals were there to greet him. After a motorcade he celebrated Mass at the main square of Santo Domingo for a crowd of 300,000 or more...