Word: rector
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John Paul was the first person outside the congregation to learn of its choice; he was telephoned the news while on a visit to Austria. Although the Pope does not know Kolvenbach, the Vatican had approved his 1981 appointment as rector of Rome's Pontifical Oriental Institute. Kolvenbach became a trusted adviser to Wladyslaw Cardinal Rubin, the Polish prelate who heads the Vatican congregation that supervises the church's Eastern rites...
...food packages a month. But church officials intervened, and soon St. Martin's was permitted to deliver additional essential supplies to the political prisoners as long as the packages were earmarked for general distribution. Early this year the Pope wrote a letter to Father Bronislaw Dembowski, the rector of St. Martin's, thanking his group for its efforts...
After two days of wrangling, the ministers adjourned and invited delegates from the other five OPEC countries to join the meeting this week. Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani reportedly said, "I think we will have an agreement." Others, though, were skeptical. Said William Brown, di rector of energy studies at the Hudson Institute, north of New York City: "They will meet. They will talk. They may even agree. But they will go home and violate whatever agreement they reach...
...asked Dr. A. Logunov, rector of the M. V. Lorrionosov State University in Moscow, to come to Boston for talks, or to send several faculty members to begin a dialogue on university ex changes...
...Bruins' troubles began with Harvard defensive end Joe Margolis and cornerback John Dailey and ended with defensive end Morgan Rector, who came up with interception...