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Using Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada as an enthusiastic mouthpiece, the skyjackers warned that their hostages would be killed and the jet blown up unless 53 assorted "freedom fighters" were released from prisons. Israeli jails held 40 of them, including Melchite Catholic Archbishop Ilarion Capucci, who was convicted two years ago of gunrunning for Palestinian guerrillas, and Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the three Japanese Red Army members who massacred 27 bystanders in 1972 at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport. The 13 other extremists, claimed the skyjackers, were imprisoned in France, Switzerland, Kenya...
...year, and Mozart hopes to find sponsors for further productions. Mozart has been performing publicly on the harpsichord and violin since the age of six, but his remarkable gift seems to be turning mainly toward composition. Still only 20, he has already written ten Masses for his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg, as well as a prodigious total of seven other operas, 18 violin sonatas, five violin concertos and 37 symphonies...
...where 2.7 million Catholics are clustered largely in the South. Many fled there following the 1954 Communist takeover in Hanoi, then formed a hard core of resistance in the ensuing war for South Viet Nam. A period of accommodation with the Communists has now begun. Saigon's archbishop, Nguyen van Binh, 65, has promised to reshuffle "the structure and personnel of Catholic dioceses" to eliminate anti-Communist dissidents, and "to teach Catholics their duties to the country...
...North, the church has long been forced to pursue a modus vivendi with the Communists. As Vicar Apostolic of Hanoi since 1950, and archbishop since 1960, Trin presided over much of that accommodation. The job has its uncertainties. Said he after his investiture: "I hope that they believe me when I tell them that I did not know the reason for my call to Rome...
...saying it is content for the present to deal gently with the church. Though one Vatican spokesman noted that "there is a long road ahead before we can achieve diplomatic recognition and an exchange of envoys," it is generally agreed that the elevation of Hanoi's archbishop to cardinal is tantamount to Vatican recognition of a united and Communist-controlled Viet...