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...really, really surprised they're notgoing," said Steven J.R. Cass '87, general managerof the Krokodiloes, who he said still plan to goon a tour this summer which includes stops inAthens, Vienna, and Rome, sites of recentterrorist attacks...
Security in many European airports has been increased, and flights have been rerouted to avoid vulnerable airports, travel agents said. TWA, whose planes have been the targets of two terrorist attacks, has cancelled all service between the Rome, Athens and Cairo airports...
Some local agencies said they are confident that they can continue to do do business as usual. Mike Yaniv of Ram Travel, a company specializing in tours to Israel, said that people are "uncertain" about travel but will go anyway. "There's no Rome in America," he says...
...directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone." Then the Pope added, to ringing applause, "I repeat: by anyone." John Paul also expressed "abhorrence" at the "genocide" of millions by the Nazis and, as did Rabbi Toaff, paid tribute to the Catholics who at great risk helped Rome's Jews, among whom 11,000 of 13,000 survived the German occupation...
...their speeches to the Pope, both Giacomo Saban, lay president of Rome's Jewish community, and Rabbi Toaff called for the Vatican to extend diplomatic recognition to Israel, a divisive issue between the two faiths. "Spiritually and emotionally," said Saban, "Israel is central to the heart of every Jew." The Chief Rabbi took the issue a theological step further by stating that the return of the Jews to the homeland was part of "God's final plan of redemption." But John Paul in his 3,000-word address made no mention of Israel, and a Vatican spokesman later said that...