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...Paul II to his native Poland built before his arrival in Warsaw last week, TIME correspondents were reporting on the activities of both the visitor and the visited. In Rome, Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, who as a Rome correspondent covered John Paul's 1978 election, followed the Pontiff's preflight preparations, then accompanied him on the trip to Poland. Paris Correspondent Thomas A. Sancton, a former associate editor who wrote many of TIME's stories about Solidarity, including the 1981 Man of the Year cover on Lech Walesa, was in Poland, an eyewitness to the spontaneous...
...them to be close to me in spirit," he said. Later, in what struck many listeners as a reference to the fact that he had been asked not to include in his itinerary the port of Gdansk, where the independent Solidarity union was founded in August 1980, the Pontiff called on Poles who could not see him "to welcome my presence in those places where my pilgrim path does...
Words, words and more words. These are all that the Pontiff offered the oppressed people of Central America during his recent visit to that region [March 14]. The only solace that John Paul II distributes to the impoverished peasant masses is an ideology that encourages acceptance of their generally miserable lot. Not until the Catholic Church in Latin America embraces the theology of liberation will it cease to be an obstacle to regional development and an instrument of the power elite...
...speculated, could be Pope John Paul II's scheduled mid-June visit to Warsaw. Some specialists have said Walesa may fear that a trip to the United States could disrupt the Pope's plans, possibly by creating such a volatile atmosphere in Poland that authorities there would cancel the pontiff's visit...
...Pope John Paul II the previous year. Brzezinski's supposed purpose: to use the Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope. They allegedly handed the assignment to the Bulgarians, long known for their subservience to the Kremlin's wishes...