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...long line of negotiating successes that have earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran, arranged an agreement with the Hungarian government by which Pope Paul VI was able to fill a number of vacant dioceses, and negotiated a treaty with Tunisia regulating the rights of the Catholic minority in that Moslem country...
...four-fifths of the 76-member pontifical commission on birth control favors a change in the Roman Catholic Church's traditional prohibition against mechanical and chemical methods of birth control. Ending three years of study on the question, the commission last week presented its findings to Pope Paul VI. Although its precise recommendations remain secret, the commission majority concluded that since the love and affection of marriage partners is as important as procreation, they are entitled to practice contraception when there is good and sufficient reason to limit the size of their families...
...dynasty, Bhumibol set some sort of ceremonial record. First he was presented with a new car for state functions, a yellow Mercedes 600 limousine. As the day progressed, the monarch presented graduation swords to 68 police officers, unveiled a new statue of King Vajiravudh, who was Rama VI, handed diplomas to 868 graduates of two universities. Then, because it was also the anniversary of Bhumibol's first musical composition, some 1,400 Thai musicians put on an all-night concert of his works. The King stayed until 2 a.m., joining in at intervals on the saxophone with...
...confederation, no longer insisting on free all-German elections or the tearing down of the Communist Wall as preconditions to the talks. Ulbricht is taken aback, but accepts when Erhard promises to renounce nuclear armament and maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining Communist clique when public opinion in East Germany runs rampantly in advance of the formal negotiations and forces him to order the Wall torn down. After a countercoup, negotiations resume, and by 1975 a four-power conference, convened by France, approves...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 56, had an experience unique for a high Communist official: an audience with Pope Paul VI. The private, 45-minute encounter signaled a distinct détente between the Catholic and Communist worlds. Even five years ago, a meeting between a Pope and a Soviet foreign minister would have been unthinkable; now Gromyko and Paul were earnestly discussing peace and the dangers in Southeast Asia. After the audience, the Marxist carried away a gold medal commemorating the Ecumenical Council. But no pictures were taken to commemorate the meeting. The Vatican considers Gromyko too controversial...