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...often than all his predecessors combined: eight trips totaling 41,000 miles. His ninth trip, which began last week-a punishing, 28,000-mile, ten-day pilgrimage taking him as far as Australia and Samoa-was the longest thus far and, as it turned out, the most dangerous. In Manila, Paul VI came closer than any Pope in centuries to being assassinated...
...attack came shortly after the Pontiff stepped out of his chartered Alitalia DC-8 into the bright sunshine at Manila airport. As Paul and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos pushed through throngs of admirers, a crewcut man in gray clerical garb, holding a crucifix, rushed forward. Suddenly he slipped a foot-long Malay dagger out of his sleeve and lunged. Churchmen around the Pope blocked the assailant, and security men swiftly wrestled...
While Mendoza remained in custody, charged with assault and attempted murder (maximum penalty: 15 years), the Pope went on about his schedule unruffled. The day after the incident some 200,000 worshipers jammed Manila's Rizal Park while the Pope concelebrated Mass with Asian bishops and ordained 200 priests from Asian countries...
Anticipating a holier-than-thou response from Manila, the prelates have already decided to mend their own ways. Church assets will be published and clerical opulence cut. Gold crosses and chains will be replaced by plain black cloth sashes, gold rings by bronze ones. So far, the government has kept silent...
Fatal Flaw. It promises to be an acid test. At the annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Manila last week, Washington's allies showed little enthusiasm for any regional plan. Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman told TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel that his nation might decline to provide any substantial assistance unless its own security were "directly threatened." Some U.S. officials are convinced that Thanat is merely trying to squeeze more aid funds out of Washington; so far Bangkok has "loaned" Phnom-Penh some river-patrol craft, as well as five T-28 propeller-driven bombers...