Word: morocco
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...twelve-day journey took John Paul to Togo, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Zaïre, Kenya and, this week, to a final stop in Muslim Morocco. As in two previous African journeys, in 1980 and 1982, the turnouts were exuberant, totaling more than 1 million in Zaïre alone. Says Cameroon's President Paul Biya, himself a Roman Catholic: "The Pope loves Africa, and Africa loves the Pope...
...John Paul addressed them as "brothers," and urged them to "walk hand in hand" with Christians "to serve God and humanity." Before returning to Rome this week, the Pope for the first time was to accept an invitation from the head of an Islamic state, King Hassan II of Morocco, to deliver an unprecedented speech to 60,000 Muslim youths gathered in Casablanca for the Pan-Islamic Games. The Pontiff hoped that this appearance would encourage the forces of toleration within Islam, and that his latest tour would help prevent the militant brand of the rival faith from spreading...
...vehicle involved in the Rhein-Main attack. It was purchased for cash one day before the explosion by two men, one of whom had a Moroccan passport and may fit the description of a suspect in the August bombing. The second man mentioned planning to drive to Morocco. Some West German authorities speculated that the RAF was working with terrorists from the Middle East...
Publicity seems to be stinging the influence peddlers. Robert Gray, who has lost Angola and Morocco as clients in the past month and laid off a dozen of his lobbying company's 190 employees, was moved last week to write in the New York Times, defending lobbyists as "conduits through which clashing attitudes reach decision makers...
...BEEN RELEASED? Over the past three years, 234 detainees have been permitted to leave Gitmo, but 67 were released on the condition that they be held by their home governments, including Pakistan, Britain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. At least 12 of those set free are believed to have resumed terrorist activities, according to the Defense Department. The vast majority of those released were deemed to be no longer a threat or of any intelligence value. Since the U.S. started the review tribunals last fall, about 40 detainees have been or will be freed because they were found...