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...Vatican City of Sport...
TIME'S suggestion that the Olympics be held permanently in Greece, Sweden or Switzerland [Feb. 11] is an inspired idea. It is worth adding the very significant offer by Greece to create a neutral Olympic territory-a kind of Vatican City of pure sport-administered by the I.O.C. or United Nations. This would seem to go a long way toward answering the objections regarding Greece's membership in NATO or possible political instability. And why not a permanent home for the Winter Olympics in Switzerland, the nation of all nations in the world with truly neutral international politics...
Among the estimated 50 hostages were Asencio and 14 other ambassadors, including those of Uruguay, Austria, Switzerland, Israel, Egypt, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil and the Vatican. The terrorists identified themselves as members of the April 19 Movement, or M-19, one of the most active of Colombia's half-dozen guerrilla groups. Their demands: a $50 million ransom, publication of their revolutionary manifestoes and the release of all political prisoners, many of whom are M-19 members facing trial by court-martial on charges ranging from armed robbery to kidnaping and murder...
Usually the Vatican's gilded Hall of the Consistory is reserved for sacred rites. This time, however, a flock of first-nighters led by Pope John Paul II himself, in a front-row-center armchair, filled the hall for a special performance of Polish Playwright Andrzej Jawien's allegory, The Goldsmith's Shop. The play, about three married couples with differing problems and a goldsmith who represents God, drew a chorus of clerical bravos, which was no surprise. Jawien was the nom de plume under which John Paul, then Polish Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote the play...
...Vatican observers think that Pope John Paul II may soon attempt a crackdown on U.S. marriage annulments, which a Roman Catholic must obtain to remarry and remain a church member in good standing. Annulments are now so widespread that they are sometimes called "Catholic divorce." In 1968 only 338 were granted in the U.S. In 1978 there were 27,670. The increase came because U.S. annulment procedure has been streamlined, and the grounds-once limited to such strict factors as force, fraud, bigamy or impotence-have been quietly loosened. Many diocesan court judges now accept evidence of serious psychological "immaturity...