Word: points
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who greeted John Paul. "He waved!" exclaimed Miguel Vera, 30. "It's beautiful?as if it is almost God to me." The Pope found ample occasion to display his actor's gifts. He jokingly covered his ears as a crowd sent up deafening cheers. At one point he responded to shouts of "Long live the Pope!" with "You are right!"? an odd rejoinder that only John Paul
...Jewish community are deeply impressed with the Pope's charismatic power, intellectual sharpness and moral persuasiveness. His words at Battery Park were an embrace of love and respect from an international superstar ... There was a positive response to his making the tragedy of Auschwitz his point of departure at the United Nations. Among Protestant and Jewish representatives, I sense a feeling that inadequate respect has been paid to America's pluralistic reality. His itinerary basically ignored the 150 million non-Catholic Americans. America could have been his first papal experience in pluralism...
...P.L.O. issued a six-point declaration stating that it had ceased cross-border operations from Lebanon; but there was no mention of a cessation of operations within Israel itself...
...Israeli mobilization would take at least 48 hours. And Israel could not afford not to mobilize because it could not permit a Syrian victory, whatever our reaction. Thus we had a breathing space-if the King could hold on-during which pressures on Syria would mount, perhaps to the point where the crisis resolved itself...
...John F. Kennedy Library dedication committee of the University of Massachusettes at Columbia Point will hold a lottery to distribute 600 seats for the opening ceremony October...