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Though the U.S. has the second largest national bloc, its nine Cardinals are not expected to unite behind a single candidate or carry much collective weight. One of the nine,* John Wright, conservative prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, is recovering from surgery in Massachusetts and unable to attend. Other groupings: Latin America (including Puerto Rico), 20; Africa, twelve; Asia, eleven...
...Pope Paul found for him in 1969 would have discouraged a lesser man: the Archbishopric of Cagliari in Sardinia. Baggio gamely traveled the island in a simple black cassock, exhorting fraternal love in place of the endemic vendetta, cajoling landlords and industrialists to provide better conditions for workers. As prefect of the Congregation for Bishops since 1973, he has screened episcopal candidates from all over the Western Hemisphere and Western Europe - a job that has brought the tough but approachable Cardinal many a loyal ally and at least a few enemies. In one angry letter, he excoriated the Philippine hierarchy...
Other appealing candidates stand only the barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
...accused of tolerating "degrading punishment." Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws. But after he was birched three strokes in 1972 for beating up a school prefect who had snitched on him, a 15-year-old Manx boy named Anthony Tyrer made an international case...
They shall not pass," declared Prefect René Jannin of the department of Isère, invoking the immortal words of Marshal Pétain before the 1916 Battle of Verdun. This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...