Word: volta
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...infection. But a team of six doctors from five countries (two from the U.S., one each from France, Poland, Spain and West Germany) pronounced him to be recovering nicely so far. Early last week the Pope was moved to say, after sipping tea laced with sugar, "Per la prima volta, mi sento bene" (For the first time, I feel well...
Jaime Cardinal Sin of the Philippines protested against "demographic manipulation." Paul Cardinal Zoungrana of Upper Volta led a protest against the World Bank for its policy of refusing financial aid to countries that have no population planning program...
Last week as the Pope moved from Zaire to Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta and the Ivory Coast, torrents of people poured into city plazas and thoroughfares to catch a glimpse of the white-robed Holy Father. In Kinshasa the rush to see John Paul produced tragedy. Part of the turnout, which eventually numbered 1 million, had waited for hours to get into the cordoned area at the Palace of the People. As the gates opened at 5:30 a.m., nine people were trampled to death in the stampede, dozens were hospitalized, and an estimated 500 had minor injuries...
...visit 30 African nations. In the end, though, only a visit to six of them seemed possible, and that involved a demanding 11,250-mile, eleven-day tour by plane, car, boat, helicopter and LandRover, which will take John Paul to Zaïre, Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta and the Ivory Coast. The itinerary was confined to Africa's middle, south of the vast Sahara region, which is dominated by Islam, and well north of the agonizing problems of racist South Africa, in which the Roman Catholic Church in 1977 demanded on the basis of Christ...
...role of supportive hostess in some overseas post. Says an American officer in the Middle East: "Twenty years ago, a wife loyally followed her husband around the world. Today she argues, 'Why should I give up my $30,000-a-year job to go Live in Upper Volta?' " To be sure, the State Department and individual embassies have relaxed the rules by allowing diplomats' wives to work at secretarial and "family liaison" jobs in the missions; obviously, this kind of employment does not appeal to a woman with a career of her own. An embassy wife...