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...theologian and John Paul is a philosopher, but they basically see eye to eye," says a veteran Vaticanologist. The two became friends at the Second Vatican Council, when both were young bishops. On Saturday evenings, the Pope has another standing appointment, with Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 72, of Benin, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Bishops, to discuss episcopal appointments. Naming heads of dioceses is one of the Pope's most effective weapons in maintaining doctrinal discipline within a church that he believes became dangerously fragmented after the Second Vatican Council...
...Clinton Administration is frantically looking for countries willing to provide "safe havens" for HAITIAN REFUGEES now that Panama has reneged on an agreement to do so. Some refugees might end up traveling farther than they initially bargained for: Washington has approached several nations in West Africa, including French-speaking Benin and Senegal, about harboring Haitians. Administration officials say the Caribbean islands of Antigua, Grenada and Dominica have agreed "in principle" to set up safe havens...
...BERNARDIN GANTIN, above, 71, Benin...
...Cotonou, Benin, is a city already transformed by democratic elections and new freedoms, despite the country's continuing poverty. The formerly drab and relatively lifeless streets bustled with activity during our visit. President Nicephore Soglo, who won a free election last year, is struggling to reform the nation's economy by privatizing industry, promoting free trade and rebuilding the agricultural system...
...makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin and Togo...