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That lively reception was rudely offset the next day in the southeastern city of Madras, where the Pope planned to meet with non-Christian religious leaders. Of the 300 invited, only 48 showed up. Embarrassed local church functionaries had to round up community leaders to fill out the audience. Later in the day, however, more than 500,000 people joined the Pope on a beach for a sunset Mass...
...terrorists staged attacks last Dec. 27 at Rome and Vienna airports against the Israeli airline El Al, it was inevitable that the Israelis would respond. Last week they apparently thought they had their + chance. As a Libyan Gulfstream II executive jet carrying nine passengers and three crewmen passed the southeastern coast of Cyprus on its way to Damascus, two Israeli fighter jets intercepted the aircraft and ordered the pilot to proceed to Ramat David air force base, near Haifa...
...change after UNITA, backed by CIA funding, lost a power struggle to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), a Marxist party that continues to run Angola with the help of some 30,000 Cuban troops and 1,500 Soviet military advisers. From his base in the southeastern third of the country, Savimbi turned from a Maoist into what he called "a New Testament socialist." Recently, he has portrayed himself in terms that U.S. conservatives find even more appealing. "The American people are again interested in helping those who are fighting for freedom," Savimbi told TIME in Angola...
Last week NWA Inc., the parent company of Northwest Orient Airlines, agreed to buy Republic Airlines for $884 million. The combination of the two carriers, both based in Minneapolis, is a good fit. Primarily a long-haul operator, Northwest would benefit from adding Republic's shorter Midwestern and Southeastern routes. If approved by the companies' shareholders and the Department of Justice, the deal would create the fifth-largest U.S. airline in terms of passengers, behind United, Eastern, Delta and American...
...FIRST GLANCE IT doesn't seem like the kind of place worth spending much money on. Since it's on the southeastern tip of Cuba and surrounded by mountains, its climate greatly resembles southern California's. Trade winds blow moisture off the Caribbean over the harbor and into the mountains, where it finally rains. As a result the immediate harbor area is desert--no streams, springs or significant vegetation of any kind. What's green and grows was probably brought...