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...interview with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou discussed a number of issues of concern to him. Excerpts...
...look forward to playing a doubleheader in midsummer heat, Joe DiMaggio replies, "Well, maybe somebody never saw me before." Umpire Tom Gorman, distracted by Yogi Berra's wagging tongue, is asked, "Hello, Tom, how's the family?" Gorman: "They died last night. Get in there and hit." Pitcher Early Wynn defends his right to knock down anyone holding a bat. "Suppose it was your own mother," demands a listener. Replies Wynn: "Mother was a pretty good curve-ball hitter...
...Reporting on the Vatican is one of the busiest and most productive assignments available to a correspondent," says TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. He should know: for all but five of the past 22 years he has been on that beat (from 1974 to 1979, Wynn was based in Cairo). He has contributed to eleven cover stories on the Roman Catholic Church and on four Popes, beginning with John XXIII. "But covering Pope John Paul II has been especially gratifying," says Wynn. "He has a real knack for getting into the news. Altogether, TIME has done eight cover stories...
Normally the Pope gives neither interviews nor press conferences, but during the long flights on the papal plane, John Paul usually takes time not only to greet reporters but to listen carefully to their questions and provide remarkably direct and thoroughgoing answers. "During our 1979 flight to Mexico," Wynn recalls, "John Paul told me that he planned to visit the U.S., the first time this had been revealed. On subsequent trips, he gave me meaty answers about keeping priests out of politics and on his plans to visit Poland in 1983 in spite of the country's state of martial...
...Wynn has been able to supplement such papal encounters with background information from an array of well-placed Vatican sources. "There is one advantage to getting older," says Wynn. "If you hang around long enough, your lower-echelon contacts eventually move up to positions of eminence." Says Associate Editor Richard Ostling, TIME's Religion writer since 1975 and the author of this week's cover story on the state of the church: "Wilton Wynn is one of the finest reporters of this generation, and a key part of TIME's Vatican coverage." Ostling is not alone in that view. During...