Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveled across his native land, the Pope was not afraid to use politically explosive words like "solidarity." But he sought to recast them in ways that would be remembered, and useful, long after the present crisis has passed. Whatever immediate gain the state hoped to reap from the papal visit, John Paul and his church have set their sights on the long term. -By John Kohan. Reported by Barry Kalb/Rome and John Moody/Warsaw
...hope of catching just a glimpse of the waving Pontiff as he sped by in his Popemobile. If John Paul could not visit the Poznan memorial, a crowd of several hundred people managed to avoid police blockades and rally by the twin crosses. A lonely yellow-and-white papal banner was left behind in the empty torch of an eternal flame that was extinguished soon after the military crackdown in December...
...Upper Silesian coal-mining region. The heavy downpour did little to dampen the spirit of the crowd of 1.2 million that was waiting for John Paul under a forest of umbrellas in a vacant airfield outside the city. When the Silesians spotted the Pope stepping from the papal helicopter, they let loose with a boisterous chorus of Sto Lat (May You Live a Hundred Years), all but drowning out a brass band of black-suited miners...
...Pope John Paul II, a story of potent political import. As it turned out, Poland performed impressively for an Iron Curtain country. There were few overt obstacles to coverage, except a lack of open, informed sources and an enforced distance from the main events. Lamented one photographer: "Every papal trip, I have to get a bigger lens because I am farther away...
...following the Pope along his route; $1,350 to ride in a Soviet M12 helicopter for three hours (which almost certainly meant landing far away from where the Pope touched down). Television reporters ran up individual tabs of as much as $20,000. The rates were hardly unique-papal trips to Zaire and West Germany cost more-but were double or greater than what Poland charged during the papal visit in 1979. And for the first time in John Paul's travels, Vatican correspondents were billed for accreditation and for buses to follow him. Among the biggest bills...