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Some feared that he'd never make it, but Pope John Paul II is headed for America after all. The Vatican said today that the 74-year-old pontiff would make a four-day trip to New York, Newark and Baltimore beginning Oct. 4, a year after he cancelled the same trip because of hip replacement surgery. After terrorist threats during the pope's January visit to the Philippines, U.S. officials are preparing heavy security measures...
...admits to being overzealous at times and points to corrective steps now in the works, such as changing the 11-day rule in the wetlands definition. But environmentalists contend that reform is not what's on Republicans' minds. Says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope: "The agenda they have set is not to fix these laws but to weaken them...
DIED. ANDRE FROSSARD, 80, intellectual editorial writer for the French daily Le Figaro and noted Roman Catholic author of such books as Defense of the Pope (1993) that chronicled his close relationship with the present Pontiff; in Versailles. Frossard was an atheist and leftist in his youth, but, as he recalled in his 1968 best seller God Exists and I Met Him, he became a sudden Catholic convert...
...week. The Valentine's Day unveiling of a diamond-shape glass plaque inscribed with his name and dates of birth and death will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opening night of his comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's pane joins those dedicated to Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick in the window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord Byron and D.H. Lawrence. DRESDEN. In 1709 Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and elector of Saxony, built the ornate Taschenbergpalais as a residence...
...barred from the priesthood: before the beatification ceremony for Mary MacKillop, a pioneering 19th century social worker, he said the church ``faces the challenge of finding fresh and creative ways of recognizing and integrating the specific charisms of women.'' Bantering with reporters toward the beginning of the trip, the Pope was asked how he felt about having been named Man of the Year. ``That was last year,'' John Paul said quickly, and with a sweep of his arm indicated it was time to move...