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...course, not quite as simple as that. On a personal level, Reagan's Grand Tour had indeed gone well. The President nodded, literally, in the Vatican, but from then on moved through an extremely taxing schedule with grace, affability and aplomb. He read his big set speeches to members of the British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like...
...ignore the diplomatic sensitivities of neighboring Chile. That country, which is also heavily Catholic, has its own border dispute with Argentina over ownership of the Beagle Channel islands, an area that is, if possible, even more remote than the Falklands. According to church sources, a settlement proposed by a Vatican mediator has been accepted by the government of Chile, but not by that of Argentina. The Galtieri government's refusal had prompted John Paul to spurn the pleas of Argentine bishops for a papal visit, until the fast-moving developments of the past few weeks changed his mind...
...plane from Britain to Rome, the Pope mingled informally with the press corps on board. He was in high spirits, fairly brimming over with satisfaction over the way the six-day pilgrimage had gone. But behind the Pope's back, some Vatican officials complain that John Paul spends too much time making and planning trips and not enough on the administration of the Holy See. They could perhaps point to the current labor situation in Rome, where a labor association representing most of the 1,800 lay employees in the world's smallest state plans an unprecedented...
Nothing seems likely to keep this Pontiff within Vatican gates. A possible third papal trip this year is under discussion: to Poland. John Paul ardently wants to attend the 600th anniversary of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, even if martial law is still in force when he arrives, just as he wanted to go to Britain despite the supposedly insurmountable diplomatic problems. Last week Archbishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice stirred speculation by telling 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Poland that the Pope wants the internment centers closed, but if they are not closed when he visits, he will...
...routine in Seesaw, and was sawed in half by The Magic Show's Doug Henning, then stuffed into a cage with a 200-lb. cougar. In the current Broadway hit Nine, Morris gives new meaning to the phrase physical-fitness buff. In one number, A Call from the Vatican, she does a feline, erotic exercise for which she is so barely dressed in such sheer black that she has worn through three costumes in six weeks. Her performance was to have been part of Sunday night's Tony Awards on CBS, but when network censors took...