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...that served as a base for visits to Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador. John Paul clearly hoped that his words in this open society would resonate throughout the region. After emerging from his plane at Juan Santamaría International Airport to the delighted shrieks of hundreds of schoolchildren, he knelt to kiss the ground in his now traditional gesture of blessing. Then, almost immediately, he got down to tough business. Instead of offering a perfunctory response to the welcoming address by Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, the Pontiff used the occasion to set forth the major themes...
...emotional burnout." But Walsh's portrait of himself after the 49ers' 41-37 loss to the San Diego Chargers Dec. 11 is more achingly descriptive. "I was totally drained," he says, "physically, mentally and emotionally. It took everything I had. There was nothing left of me. I knelt down for the prayer, and as I went to get up from one knee, I couldn't. When I made it back to the coaches' room, I broke down sobbing...
...knelt, cried for a minute and left behind his campaign medals: Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit. Another, like many of the veterans in olive drab, added his name to an ad hoc battalion sheet someone had staked in the ground; he stood back, saluted, saw his reflection in the polished black stone, then let out a kind of agonized whimper before two buddies led him away. An Illinois mother ran her fingers once, twice across the name JERRY DANAY, who was killed by a rocket. "It makes me feel closer," Helen Danay said as she remembered...
Later, as John Paul moved through the streets of Buenos Aires in his Papamovil, an Indian woman knelt at the curb praying, "Let him hear my sorrow. Let God's light breathe life into the fallen." Reflected one young university student on the Pope's message: "I love my country. Our cause is just. But I love God more than the Malvinas." The feeling was mirrored in less religious reactions: crowds that gathered outside the offices of the daily La Nación to read the latest war news did not greet last week's announcements...
Nixon recalls that he invited me to kneel with him and that I did so. My own recollection is less clear on whether I actually knelt. In whatever posture, I was filled with a deep sense of awe. A passage from Aeschylus ran through my mind-as it happened, a favorite of one of Nixon's obsessions, Robert Kennedy...