Word: vatican
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...crisis made reluctant -and doubtless temporary -allies of Walesa and Communist Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Since returning from a visit to the Vatican last month, Walesa has been preaching moderation in Solidarity's dealings with the government, to the annoyance of radicals among the union's 10,000 members. Solidarity, he urged, must remain united, and must concentrate on such basic economic grievances as the five-day work week and the recognition of an independent farmers' union, Rural Solidarity...
Under a wintry Italian sky, a gray-suited and solemn Lech Walesa, his wife Miroslawa and a 13-member delegation from Solidarity strode across the Vatican's stone-paved Court of San Damaso to the Apostolic Palace. For the occasion, the Swiss Guards had donned their red-plumed metal helmets, an honor usually reserved for visiting heads of state. The helmets attested to the special significance that the Vatican attached to last week's meeting between the leader of Solidarity and his Pope and countryman, John Paul II, formerly Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Cracow...
There is a peculiar contemporaneity in this careful reconstruction of the Vatican's historic opening to the Soviet bloc under Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. As a Rome correspondent for TIME, Roland Flamini covered the papal elections of 1978. When he began this book the year before that, Flamini could not have foreseen a Polish Pope and Soviet divisions poised on Poland's borders...
...general tale of Vatican Ostpolitik has been told before, of course, in Norman Cousins' 1972 memoir and numerous other writings. Flamini draws on interviews with insiders and previously classified documents of the Vatican...
Government. He discovers a Khrushchev more friendly to the Pope than to John Kennedy; John XXIII maneuvering behind the backs of the Vatican Curia's professional antiCommunists; and CIA Director John McCone, a Catholic, warning his Pontiff that he is going too far. This is a valuable history for anyone attracted to modern diplomacy and Vatican intrigue...