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...from Hillary 33. Western moniker 34. Throw in 36. Turkey's new President, __ Necdet Sezer 37. They're now getting $750,000 per show 39. Wavy lines, in comics 42. New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or __" 43. Populous area, for short 46. Its third secret was not what Vatican critics said it would be 48. Sierra Leone's captured rebel chief Foday __ 51. When 7-Down bought in, she walked out 52. Most tender 53. Bear's exhortation 54. Glaswegian...
...ROBBINS released his new novel, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, in which he speculates on the third secret of Fatima, a prophecy which is said to have been imparted to three Portuguese children through a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917 and fiercely guarded by the Vatican ever since. Less than two weeks later, Pope John Paul II revealed the secret to the public. The Pope said it foretold the attempt on his life in 1981. Robbins had postulated a slightly different conclusion, namely, that "the salvation of mankind would come from a source other than the church...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL O'CONNOR, 80, Archbishop of New York and the Vatican's leading U.S. spokesman; in New York City (see Eulogy, below...
Cardinal O'Connor was best known as one of the Vatican's favorite conservative dogmatists. Most New Yorkers, however, had scant knowledge of his equally vigorous struggle for the traditional Catholic social-justice agenda. His New York archdiocese has educated, housed and cared for hundreds of thousands of Catholics and non-Catholics. He was a proud advocate of workers' rights and a supporter of unions. And his insistent importunings have advanced ecumenism, particularly with the Jewish community. He was an extraordinary prince of the church but always a priest first...
...class striver who in another life might have become a crooked appliance salesman or sticky-fingered union boss. This playful film teases out the inherent absurdity in the dictator's fall (this was a man besieged by U.S. troops blaring bad pop music to drive him out of his Vatican-embassy refuge) without trivializing his predations...