Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After Vatican talks, the archbishops seek dialogue and unity...
...employment. One of Jobs' best friends at the time was Stephen Wozniak. Pooling their talents, the two Steves built and sold so-called blue boxes, which were illegal electronic attachments for telephones that allowed users to make long-distance calls for free. On one occasion, Wozniak called the Vatican and, pretending to be Henry Kissinger, asked for Pope Paul VI. As Wozniak tells the story, the Pontiff was summoned, and Vatican officials caught on to the ruse only after a bishop came on the line to act as translator. In 1972, Jobs entered Oregon's Reed College...
...many countries as a model for the whole West to emulate. The French have poured more than five billion dollars in various forms--cash, food, consumer goods, etc.--into Poland since the imposition of martial law and the government has exerted intense diplomatic pressure, most notably through the Vatican and the Churches of other Eastern Bloc nations, on Jaruzelski's regime. And, of course, the French government's rapid condemnation of the Polish military dictatorship and of the Soviet involvement in Poland provided an unusual instance of gallic solidarity with the rest of Western alliance...
Berlinguer's party promptly struck back. Bristling at the "insults and bad faith" of the Soviet attack, P.C.I. Foreign Affairs Specialist Giancarlo Pajetta observed tellingly that "there is no Communist Vatican, and nobody can excommunicate us." Observed the Italian party daily L'Unità: "It seems to us strange and worrisome that the [Soviet party] has learned nothing from the numerous grave facts and ruptures of the past, which have strongly damaged, and continue to weigh upon, not only the cause of socialism, of peace, of liberty, but also on the Soviet Union itself...
...question about the U.S. sanctions against the Soviet Union after the crackdown in Poland, Reagan said that he had received a letter from Pope John Paul II and that the Pontiff "approves what we've done so far." The papal message did not mention the sanctions, and the Vatican issued a statement insisting that the Pope had only praised Reagan for supporting "the aspiration of [Polish] people for liberty...