Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steves built and sold so-called blue boxes, which were illegal electronic attachments for telephones that allowed users to make long-distance calls for free. On one occasion, Wozniak called the Vatican and, pretending to be Henry Kissinger, asked for Pope Paul VI. As Wozniak tells the story, the Pontiff was summoned, and Vatican officials caught on to the ruse only after a bishop came on the line to act as translator. In 1972, Jobs entered Oregon's Reed College, but he left two years later to ease his family's financial hardships. He then took...
...POPE. Answering a question about the U.S. sanctions against the Soviet Union after the crackdown in Poland, Reagan said that he had received a letter from Pope John Paul II and that the Pontiff "approves what we've done so far." The papal message did not mention the sanctions, and the Vatican issued a statement insisting that the Pope had only praised Reagan for supporting "the aspiration of [Polish] people for liberty...
...simple object of discussion." Eight of the doctors voted against the surgery: the Pope was still too sick to risk an operation. The ninth doctor thought the reverse. John Paul went with No. 9 and ordered surgery. According to a Roman physician familiar with the discussions, the Pontiff explained, "I don't want to continue half dead and half alive." The operation was performed successfully on Aug. 5, John Paul left the hospital nine days later, and has gradually resumed his activist pontificate...
Despite these steps, the Pope said yesterday. "Under the threat of losing their jobs, citizens are forced to sign declarations that don't agree with their conscience." These forced signatures do "grave damage to man," the pontiff added...
...last May linger on. For Josef Hartmann, 60, the horror would evolve into an even stronger, more lasting vision. A civil servant from Mōmlingen, West Germany, on a tour of Italy with his wife Erna, Hartmann was in St. Peter's Square taking pictures of the Pontiff from behind, when shots rang out from the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol of Mehmet Ali Agca. Two weeks later, Hartmann and his wife were showing slides of then-vacation to their son Wolfgang, 33, a schoolteacher. Wolfgang immediately spotted what his parents had missed: perhaps the most chilling photographic...