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...white building in downtown Nassau. Holding umbrellas to shade themselves from the warm January sun, citizens chat about the proceedings they have been following. "You keep hearing rumors, so there must be something to it," says a middle-aged man. Volunteers a woman who sells straw hats at the open-air market: "Everything is true; the Prime Minister is through...
John Paul led a candlelight procession to the grotto on Sunday, which was followed by an open-air Mass in an adjacent meadow on Monday, the feast of the Assumption, the religious holiday marking Mary's entry into heaven. The Pope noted that his visit coincided with the 2,000th anniversary of her birth.-* The Mass was attended by 150,000 worshipers. That was far short of the expected 300,000, many of whom undoubtedly stayed away because of a terrorist act two days before John Paul's arrival. An anticlerical group calling itself Arrete Cures (Stop Priests...
Germany's music attractions are among the most prestigious in Europe. Apart from the Munich and the Bayreuth Wagner festivals, which have long since been sold put, there are Jugendfestspiele at Bayreuth in August, Ansbach's legendary Bach week also early in August, and open-air opera at Augsburg and Heidelberg, followed in September by the Berlin Festival centering on Herbert von Karajan. West Berlin has become as racy as it was in the '30s, drawing Americans by the hundreds with dozens of cafés offering every variety of decadence...
Protected from the blazing sun by umbrellas and hats made from folded newspapers, 500,000 people filled Poznan's Park of Culture for an open-air Mass. Some of them, like one taxi driver who had walked all night from his village twelve miles away, had turned the Pope's visit into a personal pilgrimage. Gathered together, they seemed to represent a cross section of the Polish nation. Sunburned farmers in baggy suits and wide ties stood side by side with teen-agers in blue jeans, wearing T shirts printed with words like KUNG FU. There were aged...
...from John Paul would spark renewed street violence. On the eve of the visit, convoys of blue and gray military and police vehicles patrolled the city. Helicopters hovered ominously above as pilgrims made their way in the early-morning light to the city's race track for an open-air Mass...