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Thus when John Paul finally stepped from the Alitalia DC-10 jetliner Galileo Galilei last Friday at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport and kissed the ground of Argentina, he faced a delicate diplomatic task. There to greet him, amid a thick crowd of government and church dignitaries, was President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, uniformed but hatless, reverently kneeling to kiss the Pontiffs ring. Later, while the Pope spoke, Galtieri gallantly held an umbrella over him, but the presence of the man who had ordered the invasion of the Falklands did not deter John Paul from hammering yet again at the message...
...Pope's message: "I love my country. Our cause is just. But I love God more than the Malvinas." The feeling was mirrored in less religious reactions: crowds that gathered outside the offices of the daily La Nación to read the latest war news did not greet last week's announcements of British losses with the jubilation of the early weeks of the conflict...
...privately at the U.S. embassy with Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki for an hour and ten minutes, and for 90 minutes with Thatcher, who walked over from the British embassy a few hundred feet away. "Hello, Al," Thatcher called to Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who was waiting to greet her on the steps. Finally, on Friday afternoon before the Versailles summit, Reagan dropped in at the Hotel de Ville (Paris' city hall) to see Mayor Jacques Chirac, who is also leader of the neo-Gaullists, the strongest opposition party to Mitterrand's Socialists in the French parliament...
...months a number of West German groups have been preparing to greet Reagan with loud and visible protests. The main event, which is not believed to be linked in any way with last week's bombings, will occur this Thursday. Some 150,000 people are expected to descend on Bonn to protest against "America's warmongering course" and, more specifically, against NATO's plans to install a new generation of nuclear missiles in Western Europe at the end of 1983. A similar though smaller demonstration will coincide with Reagan's visit to West Berlin the next...
Buoyed by such acclaim, back in Rome a tired John Paul and his harried entourage barely had enough time to unpack, greet the visiting President Reagan, sketch plans, repack and take off Friday for Argentina. That journey of 7,000 miles carries no ecumenical agenda whatsoever; the population is 92% Catholic, compared with Britain's 13%. But while the basic purpose is pastoral, even more than in Britain the political landscape is dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week...