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...most sacred Marian shrine, 40 miles west of Buenos Aires. The Peronists had distributed leaflets through the capital and other cities with exhortations calling EVERYONE TO LUJÁN . . . WELCOME JOHN PAUL II ... THE POPE AND PERÓN ARE AS ONE GREAT HEART . . . EVITA IS A SAINT. As it turned out, with more than a million devout Argentines packing the square and streets in front of the shrine, the Peronists were lost in the crowd...
...tinted glass of his Lincoln at a crowd of 2,000 lining the Avenue Victoria as his motorcade sped away from the meeting with Chirac. One reason for the heavy precautions: that morning a bomb had exploded at the American School of Paris, located in the suburb of Saint-Cloud. There were no injuries. On the school's wall was inscribed the legend ACTION DIRECTE, the name of an outlawed ultraleft organization...
...warmest enthusiasm for children. Most onlookers were Catholics-England is only 10% Catholic-but Protestant Housewife Val Weatherbee remarked: "A man of peace in a land of war." Added another, "I'm not a Catholic, but I believe this is my only chance to see an authentic saint...
Alex de Jonge-an Oxford professor of Russian ancestry-takes Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin's rise to power to be one of history's tragic jokes. The Tsarina thought Rasputin a saint because he could apparently heal her son; and because he was a saint, he must be heeded in all matters. The Tsar did not lag far behind in credulity...
...Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal law, but so are others. What made Dershowitz the right choice is that he has become, perhaps, the top lawyer of last resort in the country-a sort of judicial St. Jude-the mouthpiece, or patron saint, of hopeless cases. Says Dershowitz: "I play the devil's advocate in court, sometimes representing true devils...