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...Saturday the Baptist President flew by Marine helicopter to call on Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. After being greeted by tail-coated officials flanked by Swiss Guards in their strikingly colorful uniforms, Carter talked privately with the Pontiff in his study for more than an hour. After the session, Carter declared that they had reviewed such mutual "unfinished tasks" as the problems of "those suffering from hunger, from poverty and disease." The President thanked the Pontiff for his efforts to free the U.S. hostages in Iran...
...tight monetary policy. By steadfastly holding down the growth rate of the nation's money supply, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker has pushed interest rates to their highest levels in a century, slowed borrowing by businesses and individuals alike, and sent the housing and auto industries into a tail spin...
...level, the tour was a cavalcade of Africanization. The crowds in Brazzaville, Congo, shook gourd rattles and castanets, waved palm branches, bouquets, homemade crucifixes. In a church near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...
...Huskies answered that first goal barely a minute later and then played over their heads, sustaining enough offensive resilience to stay on the Crimson's tail for the next five minutes...
...abroad. Often tongue-tied in public, his main relaxation is flying around the world in his two private planes. One was owned by Howard Hughes when he was escorting Jane Russell; his other craft, a Convair 440, is painted 14 shades of green, with a shamrock on the tail and a leprechaun near the entry hatch. Daly calls it "the jolly green giant," but less respectful mechanics know it as "the green pickle...