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...stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today for the prayer," said the murderer...
...walking at their head. As the passionate faithful, 3,000 strong, neared the town's 151-foot monument to workers slain in 1970, they were stopped by a cordon of security police. Walesa and his bodyguard were permitted to pass. Advancing to the monument, the stocky electrician knelt before its three towering steel crosses and gently laid at its base a bouquet of red and pink gladioli. Then, flanked by security police, Walesa slowly raised his right hand in the defiant V sign...
...among the wheelchairs and stretchers, the Pope touched the lame, kissed the heads of small children carried to him by their parents, and blessed elderly cripples too weak even to speak. Finally, the Pope paused at the front of the grotto to pray in silence. For ten minutes he knelt, his head bowed, occasionally seeming to wipe away tears. Then he told his fellow pilgrims, "Faith assures us that the Lord can and wants to draw good from evil. Neither just nor unjust, suffering remains difficult to understand and difficult to accept, even for those who have faith." He might...
...glimpse of the man whose portrait hangs in countless homes across the country as he stepped from the plane at Warsaw's Okecie Airport. Clutching his white skullcap against a sudden breeze, John Paul made his way down to the tarmac and, in his traditional gesture of respect, knelt to kiss the asphalt. While Polish President Henryk Jablonski looked on, the Pope explained with emotion that he had kissed the ground, "as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother." Said John Paul: "I consider it my duty...
...Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Pope visited the grim confines of Pawiak Prison, an infamous Nazi death house that has been preserved as a monument to thousands of Poles who were tortured and executed there. In a small square in front of the prison entrance, he knelt in silent prayer before a mulberry tree bearing dozens of painted metal plaques with the names of Pawiak victims...