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...born-again Protestant whose regime is accused of anti-Catholic bias as well as the murder of a large number of Indian civilians. After a day trip to Honduras, the Pope will fly from Guatemala to Haiti, making a six-hour stop in Belize. In the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, he will open the quadrennial assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM...
...Beirut, Christian militiamen had remained in control of the predominantly Christian section of the city. Last week, after negotiations with the government of President Gemayel, the militia agreed to make way for the army. The agreement also called for the government to take over the "Fifth Basin," an illegal port where the militiamen have long collected import duties. In fact, even after the army takes over the Fifth Basin, the militia may continue to collect revenues there. The militiamen may have agreed to cooperate with the government, but they were not yet ready to put themselves out of business...
...controlled an area of southern Lebanon since 1979 with Israeli backing. Last week the Israelis transported Haddad and many of his 1,000 or so militiamen, together with their old Sherman tanks and aging American-made armored personnel carriers, in flatbed trucks all the way to the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, some 20 miles north of the area Haddad normally controls. Boldly announcing that his "Free Lebanon" had been expanded to cover the boundaries of the 28-mile zone demanded by the Israelis, Haddad declared: "There is no need to proclaim our new state. This...
Hundreds of tiny black, red and yellow West German flags fluttered amid the crowded banks of seats in the concrete-and-glass stadium in the Baltic port of Kiel. The odors of steaming sausage and green pea soup wafted from giant kettles in the corridors. Through the cheerful melee strode West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 52, shaking hands and exchanging greetings with some of the 6,000 supporters in attendance. From the podium, Kohl catalogued a variety of traditional conservative remedies for the social and economic ills of West Germany that arose, he said, during the rule of his Social...
...weeks residents of the Mediterranean port of Nice have been enjoying striptease by billboard. It began last month, when large signs appeared displaying a bikini-clad blond against the Backdrop of the resort's famed beachfront. She pledged in large letters to TAKE IT OFF, and indeed in the next installment her top was gone. When, in the billboard's third version, the bathing beauty finally showed up in the altogether, the accompanying slogan read: AS PROMISED AFTER 21 MONTHS OF SOCIALISM, I'VE GOT NOTHING LEFT...