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...stopped, as streets filled with crowds of well-wishers bearing pennants and portraits of the Pope. Fully half the population of Bata, capital of tiny Equatorial Guinea, came out to greet him and threw palm branches to blanket his path. In neighboring Gabon, a special residence for the Pontiff was built in two weeks. Even the Marxist state of Benin fell under the spell, as posters with Bible quotations went up next to Communist slogans...
...than 5,000 of its members and sympathizers in detention camps, clamped severe restrictions on personal liberty, and left at least ten dead and hundreds injured. The archbishops were well aware of that unrelieved bleakness. Indeed, they spent much of their week in the Vatican briefing the Polish-born Pontiff on the dim prospects for his homeland's future. As Glemp described it during an emotional sermon at Rome's Church of St. Stanislao: "Our fatherland ... is sick. Poles are overcome by anger. We are enraged one against the other." The church's role, said Glemp...
...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...