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...Mass in Washington, with an estimated 1 million people praying with him, will provide a momentous end to the Pope's journey, which began last weekend when he left Rome aboard a specially equipped Aer Lingus jumbo jet bearing the name Naomh Padraig (Gaelic for Saint Patrick). Aboard the 747 were some 180 church officials and journalists and 16 stewardesses...
...Naomh Padraig approached the Emerald Isle, the airliner was joined by an escort of jet fighters from the Irish air corps. Later, five air corps jets saluted the Pope by flying over Dublin's airport in a cross-shaped formation. President Patrick Hillery, Prime Minister Jack Lynch and senior Cabinet ministers were on hand to greet John Paul. In keeping with modern papal protocol, Prime Minister Lynch and his Catholic colleagues did not kiss the Pope's ring, but merely shook his hand and bowed...
...Rescue. Ships of all sorts and all nations converged on the scene. The Irish ferryboat, Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little...
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