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...could withstand an invasion of up to 500,000 visitors a day -- five times the city's capacity, according to the opponents' estimates. Even without the Expo, Italian tourism will reach record levels by the turn of the century: 2000 is a Holy Year, when tourists will flock to Rome, while Milan may be serving as host for the Summer Olympics. To spread out the traffic, Expo organizers propose holding their fair from January to April -- just when the canals most frequently overflow their banks. Argues Cesare De Michelis: "The idea of the Expo is to control tourism, not increase...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
Stallings originally based his break with Rome on what he called the Catholic Church's unwillingness to recognize the spiritual needs of African Americans. He also complained that the church did not recognize and nurture talent (presumably his own) and that James Cardinal Hickey had insisted he undergo psychiatric treatment. According to the Post, Hickey made the demand after years of frustration over Stallings' Lone Ranger tactics. Especially disturbing to Hickey, said the Post, were Stallings' refusal to live in a rectory and questions about whether the priest's expensively decorated private residence had been partly funded by church offerings...
Last February, after Stallings proclaimed his total split from Rome on the Phil Donahue show, the archdiocese excommunicated him and all Catholics in his flock. At that time, the priest announced that his organization had abandoned Catholic teachings against abortion, birth control, homosexual activity and remarriage after divorce. His planned consecration as a bishop this week is to be performed by a like-minded prelate from an obscure white denomination, Archbishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church in Highland, Calif. As a bishop, Stallings will be able to ordain his own schismatic priests...
...Originating on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean nearly 2,000 years ago, the newborn faith spread rapidly to Syria, and thence the apostle Paul took it to his native land, present-day Turkey. Others went southward to Egypt, making Alexandria the first center of Christian culture long before Rome and Constantinople. The rise of Islam beginning in the 7th century ultimately made that faith predominant...