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...some 7,000 National Guard troops, state and local police and agents of the Secret Service, which budgeted $5.5 million for the papal trip. Their roadblocks and security checks rendered the city's streets eerily empty. The intensity of the precautions cut into the size if not the warmth of the welcome that greeted John Paul as his cavalcade traveled into Miami on the initial 23-hour leg of his stay...
...Reform Judaism in the U.S., told the Pontiff that in 1979 he had lifted a child above the crowd when John Paul visited New York City, saying, "Remember for the rest of your life that it was a rabbi who helped you see the Pope." But for all the warmth, what some were already calling the historic "Castel Gandolfo meeting" has not healed all the old wounds. To ensure that this visit will be remembered past his lifetime, the Pope who saw the rabbis has merely begun what promises to be years of delicate work...
After last year's disaster, the European travel industry launched major U.S. advertising campaigns that stressed images of homey warmth and welcome. The European Travel Commission, a consortium of 23 member nations, is spending $50 million this year to promote Europe to Americans as "one of the safest travel destinations," while the Swiss National Tourist Office has mounted a $1 million publicity campaign that stresses Switzerland's "stability and tranquillity." A $3 million advertising blitz touting the pleasures of Greece includes a series of TV commercials, first aired last year, in which such all- American personalities as Cliff Robertson, Lloyd...
...Labor Leader Kinnock calls the unemployment situation a "lead weight of misery dragging down the British economy." Thatcher's attitude, he said last week, would lead Britain to have "beggars in the street and young boys on the run in the city, to people dying for lack of warmth in their own homes." The Church of England and even some patrician Tory leaders have become persistent critics of Thatcher's social policies, particularly in education and health care...
...kids, huddling together for warmth in their entirely self-referential culture, are pathetic in their impoverishment. To be sure, one of them, Matt, who is played with exemplary restraint by Keanu Reeves, does finally violate their conspiracy and makes a tentative connection with traditional morality. But by this time the cold of this brave and singular work has seeped into our bones. We know that Matt is the exception to a bleak and deeply disturbing vision of adolescent life...