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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...
...added that Reagan did, not answer the pontiff's call for limiting nuclear weapons with any specific policy suggestions. Reagan's response, Baltimore said, was a comment on "the Biblical notion of Armaggedon...
Though his journey took him a mere 75 miles north of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II, 61, was delighted to be back doing what he does best. The Pontiffs trip to the Italian village of Todi was his first visit outside Rome since he was felled by a would-be assassin's bullet in St. Peter's Square. Security forces, the largest ever in Italy for a papal visit, tried to keep a distance between the Pontiff and a crowd of 10,000, but John Paul would have none of it. Disregarding his ring of security guards...
...have cleared them with the Pontiff...