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During the first week of September, the 1987 World Track and Field Championships will be held in Rome. The casual viewer of "NBC Sportsworld" has undoubtedly seen the events before--the pole vault, steeplechase, sprints and hurdles. But most people haven't developed an appreciation for what the athletes do to accomplish such feats...
...Rome's view, Sister Teresa offered herself as a martyr following the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. But it is known she had tried to transfer to a Swiss convent. After her arrest she asked the convent to send her two suitcases of clothes; that indicated ignorance of her fate, according to Sister Marie Louise, a former prioress at Echt. Agrees Pinchas Lapide, a Frankfurt Jewish scholar: "Her death was totally involuntary." Although "in her own mind Edith Stein most probably died for her faith," says Renee Grignon, an official of the French Jewish-Christian Friendship Association...
...Sister Teresa at a Cologne stadium during the Pontiff's five-day visit to West Germany. In the ceremony -- the final step before Teresa is declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church -- the Pope will be further drawing his church into a dispute that seems to be aggravating Rome's history of strained relations with Jews. John Paul will be stepping directly into the controversy on his West German visit, during which he will also beatify Rupert Mayer, a German Jesuit priest who opposed the Nazis and died...
Other experts believe that Gorbachev is eager for a deal primarily because it would strengthen his hand against opponents of his economic and cultural reforms within the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev, says Cesare Merlini, president of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, is thinking mostly of winning the "power struggle within the Kremlin...
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