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...twelve-day journey took John Paul to Togo, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Za??re, Kenya and, this week, to a final stop in Muslim Morocco. As in two previous African journeys, in 1980 and 1982, the turnouts were exuberant, totaling more than 1 million in Za??re alone. Says Cameroon's President Paul Biya, himself a Roman Catholic: "The Pope loves Africa, and Africa loves the Pope...
...Za??re's capital of Kinshasa, 250,000 attended a Mass where the Pope performed the first beatification of a black African woman, Sister Marie-Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta, who was beaten and bayoneted to death in 1964 as she resisted a rape. Before a hushed assembly that included Anuarite's family, John Paul recounted that the martyred nun had, "like Christ," pardoned the soldier who assaulted her. Then he added dramatically, "And I too forgive her killer with all my heart, in the name of the entire church." The man, educated by missionaries, had asked publicly for the Pope...
...close association with people and frequently bite them. How the disease might have traveled from Africa to the U.S. and Haiti is anybody's guess. One "intriguing" clue, says Dr. Peter Piot of the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, is that several thousand Haitians lived in Kinshasa, Za??re, from the early 1960s to the mid-'70s, and most of them, he says, have since moved to North America and Europe. As another researcher put it, the virus "didn't just fall...
...step out from time to time. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, shod in Adidas, alighted from his silver sedan to jog in Central Park. He also stopped at Cohen's Fashion Optical to buy, using a credit card, $3,000 worth of eyeglasses for himself and his family. Za??rian President Mobutu Sese Seko rented two Amtrak club cars loaded with caviar and champagne to take his entourage of 50 people to Washington and back (cost: $9,800). Outside the U.N., West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had to be snatched from the path of an onrushing New York City police...
...plans to attend most of the plenary sessions, has appointed a balanced slate of three presiding cardinals: Johannes Willebrands, 76, a Dutch ecumenist who is president of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity; John Krol of Philadelphia, 75, a conservative on ecclesiastical matters; and Joseph Malula of Za??re, 67, a symbol of the Third World, which accounts for three-fifths of both the synod delegates and the globe's 825 million Catholics...