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Last year Arrupe, Superior General since 1965, cited age and health in asking John Paul's permission to resign. In August, felled by a stroke that left him partially paralyzed, Arrupe, 73, followed Jesuit legal procedure and selected a Vicar General (interim leader), American Father Vincent O'Keefe, 61, to run the order. O'Keefe is a former president of Fordham University. Unable to speak intelligibly because of his illness, Arrupe has not replied to John Paul's announcement that he was naming Dezza as "a delegate who will represent me more closely in the society...
...Joseph Granville of Holly Hill, Fla. The stock market hip shooter, whose forecasts have been wrong as often as right, has over the years gained a large and loyal following among investors who subscribe to his weekly market newsletter and hang on his words as if he were the Vicar of Value...
Among the few happy consequences: after 4-ft. snowdrifts prevented a christening at a Devon church, the vicar made his way to the local pub, where the postchristening celebrations were to have been held. The baby was baptized right there, over a champagne bucket...
...official dinner hosted by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Haig poked some fun at his own troubles within the Administration. In a toast to Shamir, Haig told the guests that he had been puzzled by exactly what it meant to be "vicar" of foreign policy. Cyrus Vance told him it meant being alone with the President three times a week. Henry Kissinger said it meant that when he was alone with the President and the hot line rings, the President tells Mr. Brezhnev, "I'm busy now. Can you call back later...
...overall approach is not. Haig began spelling it out in speeches while he was still NATO commander; his ideas dovetail so neatly with Reagan's that the President hardly considered anyone else as his No. 1 foreign policymaker (or, as Haig calls it, the President's "vicar" in this area). The essence of their combined view: the prime threat to peace and stability in the world is Soviet expansionism, and the U.S. must restore the confidence of its allies and the entire free world that it can and will contain such aggression...