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Afterward, the Pope greeted the only survivor among the three children who reported seeing the Fátima vision-Lucia dos Santos, now a 60-year-old Carmelite nun-and conferred briefly with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Eleven hours after his arrival, Paul was winging back to Rome. Whatever its temporal effects on peace, many Catholics regarded the Pope's visit as a religious incongruity. To encourage ecumenism with Protestants, the Second Vatican Council did not emphasize Mary, and the exaggeration of Marian devotion in Catholicism has since declined. In the light of Paul's conservatism...
...Ever since Britain began the evacuation of empire, even the tiniest of its island colonies in the West Indian crescent has craved recognition of its separate identity. Last week Britain granted "associated statehood"-something above colonial status but below independence-not only to Antigua but also to Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica and the group of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. In May, St. Vincent will get "associated statehood." The new states will conduct most of their affairs through popularly elected legislatures, but by mutual agreement, Britain will handle (and pay the bills for) their foreign affairs and defense. Full independence...
...planters from the soil of these lush islands, but today they are rich only in scenery, have precarious, one-crop economies, which have been hurt by increased competition abroad. The St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla group (pop.: 60,000) suffers from uncertain prices for its sugar. The fortunes of St. Lucia (100,000), Grenada (88,000) and Dominica (67,000) slide or surge along with the world price for their bananas. Only Antigua (65,000), with its casino and 33 hotels, attracts a sizable tourist crowd; it needs visitors more than usual this year because drought has ruined the sugar crop...
...Premier. He has a point when he argues that islands with different histories and customs would not merge smoothly at present. For example, English-speaking Antigua, which has a pronounced partiality for the U.S. through contact with tourists and the Virgin Islands, differs from such southerly islands as St. Lucia, where a Creole patois is widely spoken and the culture is French...
...world, Ellmann notes that he "could not live outside the environment of family affection, badly as he acts within it." He fought hard for the advancement of his son, Giorgio, who aspired to be a singer (he became a middling successful bass) and devoted years to tending his daughter, Lucia, when she lapsed into schizophrenia...