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...official in the Curia, "and found it wanting." In terms of the men he trusts and consults, that is unquestionably true. During the council, Paul frequently relied upon the advice of such progressive non-Italian prelates as Leo-Joseph Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, Julius Cardinal Döpfner of Munich, Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna. Apparently, all three have been dismissed from favor as unsympathetic. Today, the Pope's most trusted adviser is Bishop Carlo Colombo, 59, who is a knowledgeable master of standard textbook theology. Another confidant is Dominican Father Luigi Ciappi, the Pope...
...Yugoslav troops in border regions. Tito fears that Soviet agents, working with die-hard ethnic groups, will make an attempt on his life. But both sides can play that game. Last week three leaders of an exile group of anti-Tito Croatians were found shot to death in their Munich office, and other Croatian exiles put the blame on Tito's secret service...
...Mexico City, he slipped in the rain-soaked discus ring and tore a thigh muscle. Relaxants and ice treatments numbed the pain for the finals, and on his third toss he won his fourth gold medal. Oerter immediately began thinking ahead to Munich in 1972-and the possibility of a fifth title. "I think I can continue to improve until I'm 40 or so," he said...
Rumors flitted through Germany that despite their three-month separation, Brigitte Bardot and Third Husband Günter Sachs were still madly in love, If so, they were having the devil's own time letting each other know about it. First the German playboy descended on Munich, where Bardot was on hand for the premiere of her new western, Shalako, She had already come and gone, They narrowly missed each other again in Hamburg, where Brigitte was celebrating her 34th birthday. Though B.B. pointedly told friends that she had lingered in one of Sachs' favorite nightclubs until...
...Munich Conference in 1938, France and Britain forced Czechoslovakia to cede to Germany its western border areas, the Sudetenland where most of the Ger man-speaking population lived. In return, Hitler promised to make no more territorial demands in Europe. Six months later, however, German tanks stormed into Prague without warning, and Nazi Propaganda Chief Joseph Goebbels read Hitler's decree to stunned Czechoslovak radio listeners: "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist!" Benes, who fled abroad, tried to make people outside his country see that what had happened there soon would be repeated elsewhere. Soon enough, all the world realized that...