Word: puebla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuine Cartier shop was opened last week to battle the imposter. The fake is the creation of Fernando Pelletier, a Mexican who has 14 "Cartier" boutiques, half of them in the capital, and others in places like Acapulco, Guadalajara and Puebla. They sell such bogus baubles as tank knock-offs assembled with cheap Swiss watch movements. Pelletier once offered to sell his stores to the Paris firm for $4.5 million, but irate Cartier officials decided to pay lawyers instead. The company has won 25 suits against Pelletier, but the copy Cartier remains in business, and still costs the Paris original...
John Paul combined the talents of showbiz superstar and avuncular, if stern, pastor. Despite his unyielding stands in matters of dogma and discipline, he proved wildly popular in human terms. Everywhere, he uncompromisingly addressed the key issues troubling the Roman Catholic Church. In Puebla, Mexico, he told Latin American bishops that while the church must preach social justice, it can never accommodate theologies that are inspired as much by Marx as by Jesus. In his homeland of Poland, during the first visit by a Pope to a Communist-ruled land, he encouraged East bloc Christians to persist in their struggle...