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...history of the Western world. Albrecht of Brandenburg, a German nobleman who had previously acquired a dispensation from the Vatican to become a priest while underage and to head two dioceses at the same time, wanted yet another favor from the Pope: the powerful archbishop's chair in Mainz. Pope Leo X, a profligate spender who needed money to build St. Peter's Basilica, granted the appointment-for 24,000 gold pieces, roughly equal to the annual imperial revenues in Germany. It was worth it. Besides being a rich source of income, the Mainz post brought Albrecht...
...same kind of welcome given his Social Democratic predecessors. For example, Soviet protocol normally dictates that the press suspend all critical references to countries whose leaders are guests in Moscow. But on the day Kohl arrived, the major Soviet television news broadcast included a report on antinuclear demonstrations in Mainz, the Chancellor's home territory. Then there was the mystery surrounding Andropov's failure to receive Kohl on the day of his arrival. Three hours before he was due to leave for Moscow, Kohl was informed that "for personal reasons," Andropov would be unable to meet...
Even if Kohl accedes to Schmidt's mantle and becomes an international statesman and media superstar, the chances are good that he will remain a provincial at heart. Kohl still prefers his cluttered office in Mainz to the C.D.U. 's marble music, in the German capital. A devotee of jazz and classical music, the master of a world-class wine cellar in his home outside Ludwigshafen, he also admits a fondness for television westerns and pizza. Recalling their eleven-year courtship, his wife Hannelore says, "I got three to four letters a week from him, amounting to over...
Thousands of foreigners, many in their national dress, cheered the Pope as he spoke in the Cathedral at Mainz, where he acknowledged the "hours of anguish, exhaustion, helplessness and disappointment in the life of a priest today," and praised those priests who "perform their duty with great conscientiousness...
...raided an apartment stocked with guns, ammunition and 30 kg of explosives. They also found evidence that led to the arrests of Sylvia Herzinger, 33, and Leila Bocook, 25, both suspected of belonging to the Revolutionary Cell, a group responsible for a rash of bombings and arson in Frankfurt, Mainz and Wiesbaden...