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...match, burning my fingers on the first try, dropping it on the second. I finally connected flame to fuse, trembling in anticipation of a blow-up in my face. BOOM. A flaming pink ball shot out. I could feel the explosive force as I clenched the "Thunder Buster" roman candle tube, and I began to aim thundering blasts of white, green and pink at the battalion of surrounding trees--my own sandlot Star Wars...
...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
Robertson rapidly moved toward the mystical, perceiving frequent and direct instructions from heaven. Dede, a Roman Catholic, was concerned that her husband was displaying "schizoid tendencies." Their firstborn Timothy was a toddler, and she was pregnant with the second of their four children, when Robertson felt called to a religious retreat in Canada. She begged him by letter to return: "I need you desperately." Robertson was troubled. "Was this God telling me to go home," he recalls wondering, "or was it Satan?" After prayer, he wrote to his wife, "I can't leave. God will take care of you." Tension...
...balmy, a refreshing California contrast to the withering heat at earlier stops across the Sunbelt. Entering a modern, glass-walled dining hall in the San Fernando Mission complex in north Los Angeles, Pope John Paul II stopped frequently as he worked his way through a gathering of 320 American Roman Catholic bishops. It was an exceptionally cordial encounter, and the Pope lingered an unscheduled 45 minutes to continue the informal exchanges before a closed-door session began. Again, after the meeting, the atmosphere was relaxed and genial at an outdoor buffet lunch at small tables under white umbrellas...
...election agreement to allow him to run the government. Aquino had "admitted that she would be incapable of running it since she had no experience," Laurel complained. There seemed to be some basis to his claim. On the eve of the February 1986 election, a high-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman -- and a prominent Aquino backer -- told a visitor that since Aquino claimed to be only a "housewife," he expected her to step down a few months after the election and turn the presidency over to Laurel...