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Those three shocking assaults had an almost theatrically pat iconography: Reagan in a business suit, the very picture of the political order; John Paul in his papal robes of immaculate white; Sadat, the erect warrior, in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform. All the victims were over 60; each was attacked by a man in his 20s. Raised in suburban ease, Hinckley had just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that...
...contest carried much of the suspense and intrigue of a papal election. After 16 ballots in five weeks, the United Nations Security Council was locked in a stalemate over the selection of a Secretary-General for the five-year term that begins Jan. 1. The People's Republic of China had repeatedly vetoed the incumbent, Kurt Waldheim of Austria, 62, who was vying for an unprecedented third term. Just as consistently, the U.S. had nixed his challenger, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Salim Ahmed Salim, 39. Last week, even though there was no puff of white smoke billowing from...
...Crossroads. "For some reason it has been possible for Christians, in the name of Christ, to ignore or even contradict fundamental principles and values that were preached and acted upon by Jesus of Nazareth." You have your Inquisition and your Crusades and your indulgence-selling and your papal imperialism, and in some ways you have a pretty grim picture. But from that legacy of dogma and rigidity, new ideas are emerging...
Other members of the delegation to the White House were Marshall W. Nirenberg, professor of genetics and biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health; Victor F. Weisskopf, professor of physics at MIT; and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pio Laghi...
...second charge springs from the increasing tension between China's officially recognized "Patriotic" Catholic Church, which follows Communist policy by totally rejecting papal authority, and a "Silent Church" movement of unknown size that remains loyal to Rome. The conflict between the two sides intensified last June when the regime withdrew its tacit recognition of Jesuit Bishop Dominic Tang as head of the Canton diocese. The ouster came just after Pope John Paul II asserted Tang's Vatican connection by appointing him Archbishop of Canton. Tang's Communist-approved successor in Canton, Bishop Ye Yinyun, has continued...