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...youthful-looking 61, the churchman from the small West African country of Benin has emerged during the past 13 years as one of the most engaging personalities on the often austere Vatican staff. Ever ready to flash an infectious grin or pump a stranger's hand, he has even managed to upstage Pope John Paul: during a papal visit to Benin two years ago, it was Gantin who received the most rousing cheers from one welcoming crowd. John Paul's increasing trust hi his African aide was acknowledged last week when Gantin, in a major reshuffle...
...interloper, David A. Mahonski, 25, an unemployed electrician from Williamsport, Pa., was no stranger to White House guards, who had observed him on the grounds and questioned him earlier that week. In court, Mahonski burst out that he had "been down to the White House to ask the President to order the FBI to take that bug out of my ear." U.S. intelligence agencies, he rambled on, had planted a "bug in my ear that transmits everything I think across the country." The President, Mahonski concluded, "had certain elements of this society fill me full of dangerous drugs . . . that take...
...morning on Tuesday, my Intourist escort promptly picked me up at the hotel and drove me to the train station. By then, the thrill of being a stranger land had dissipated...
...been made available by the ubiquitous and unsavory Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine. In the film, De Lorean talks with agents posing as drug dealers, fondles the coke packets and says, "It's better than gold." A door opens and a man enters. "Hi John," the stranger says folksily. "I'm Jerry West from the FBI. You're under arrest for narcotics-smuggling violations...
...particularly young 19-year-old when I came to Harvard." Masson says, "It was a very difficult time for me. I felt lonely and ignored, which I was for a long time, and I never really oriented myself in Cambridge. I always felt like a stranger, an outsider, unacceptable. I remember I would sometimes wander the streets around Christmas time, looking in and seeing all those colorful lights inside houses and feeling totally left out," he says...