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...promises to be a colorful extravaganza. The economic meeting at Louis XIV's palace in Versailles will be capped by a special performance of the Paris Opera and a son et lumière fireworks display. The President will meet with the Pope in the Vatican's Papal Apartments, five days after the Pontiff's return from his trip to Britain, and then fly by helicopter to meet with President Sandro Pertini at the Quirinale Palace, built in 1574 as a summer residence for Pope Gregory VIII. At the invitation of Queen Elizabeth, Reagan will...
...pointedly appealed for prayers for peace. But besides that ever fiercer war with Argentina, where he now plans to travel next week, John Paul spoke to the religious conflict of the centuries. For the Pope was visiting a nation that symbolizes, perhaps as no other, rebellion against the papal office...
...dramatic Mass for peace at the Vatican the weekend before last, with both British and Argentine Cardinals concelebrating, the lines were well formed. Arrayed in favor from the start were the British bishops. Opposed were key members of the Curia-and, most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, prefect of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America...
...mine, a duty of the heart, the duty of a son toward his mother and nation." But, the Pontiff added, "there must be created adequate conditions for this, and I count on it, in the name of the prestige of Poland." John Paul's remarks were another papal prod to get the regime to come to terms with the Solidarity movement. But Warsaw is convinced that a papal return would be dangerous under current conditions. While the regime is eager to avoid the onus of canceling the papal visit, prospects for the trip seem dimmer than ever...
...remarks one Vatican observer, "and will make up his own mind." He does not appear to be basing his decision on the counsel of the British Catholic hierarchy. But he will no doubt listen with special attentiveness to American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, who handles the logistics and security for papal trips. By week's end, the archbishop was in constant touch with Portuguese authorities ("There will be police and security men everywhere," said one Fatima official) and worrying, next things next, about details of the trip to England...