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...still the same old story. The Lisbon plane always descends like a kid's toy landing on the living-room rug. Stick-figure Nazis in animal faces (Strasser a wolf, his aide a fat little pig in glasses) come strutting off. That night at Rick's they chorus Die Wacht am Rhein, the stein-swinging bully song that is the Nazis' idea of a good time in a nightclub. The defiantly answering Marseillaise stirs the soul and raises its Pavlovian goose bumps for the 15th time. They still pronounce "exit visa" weirdly: "exit...
First Boston Corp., a leading Wall Street investment house; of cancer; at his vacation home near Lisbon, Portugal. Son of a Brooklyn shipyard worker, Woods rose to become what Banker David Rockefeller called "one of the two or three top investment bankers in the U.S. and perhaps the world...
...pilgrimage to Portugal, which was also an official state visit, had begun in a festive mood in Lisbon the day before, when the Pope moved through cheering throngs in a vintage Rolls-Royce borrowed from an auto museum for the occasion. By the time the open car reached Lisbon's cathedral, it was inches deep in confetti and flower petals that the crowd had showered on John Paul. Later the Pope met in Belem Palace with Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes...
...name derives from its basic tenet: that the See of Peter has been vacant since the 1958 death of Pope Pius XII, whom they consider the last orthodox Pope. Fernández may face a high penalty for acting on his beliefs: he was formally arraigned in Lisbon on a charge of attempted murder. A conviction could bring him 15 to 20 years in prison...
...Friday John Paul was acting as if the attack had never occurred. Visiting the agricultural community of Vila Viçosa 90 miles east of Lisbon, in a stronghold of grass-roots Communism where dirt-poor farm laborers seized estates in the wake of the 1974 revolution, the Pontiff issued a rousing call for "fundamental human rights" and better living conditions for rural workers. Afterward, he stepped out into the crowd, pushing through a tight police cordon to shake hands. At one point he beckoned to a cluster of men and women wearing broad-brimmed straw hats and blankets draped...