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...Detailed expense notations were found in a Red Brigades hideout in Rome that police say was used by the Moro hit team. The notes refer to airline flights made to Vienna and four German cities by someone using the code name Fritz...
...West German automobile license plates, found in the same hideout, were not listed as stolen in either West Germany or Italy, and thus presumably were taken directly to Rome. (Italian license plates belonging to the cars used in the Moro attack were found at the same time...
Notwithstanding Paul's earnest exhortation, his funeral was hardly over before outside pressure groups began agitating over the sort of man who should become the next Pope. The ultraconservative religious movement Civilta Cristiana plastered Rome with posters demanding "a preacher of crystal-clear doctrine and a custodian of truth against the current heresy." Other right-wingers who follow France's semischismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre drew up a broadside linking certain papabili (possible Popes) with Freemasonry. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, the U.S.-based Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope issued in Rome...
...proceeding among the Cardinals who will elect Roman Catholicism's 263rd Pope in hermetic secrecy during the conclave that begins this Friday evening. Paul stripped the right to vote from Cardinals age 80 and over, a ruling affecting 15 of the 129 red hats. With the death in Rome last week of Paul Yu Pin, 77, the exiled Chinese Cardinal, 114 men are eligible. But America's John Wright, India's Valerian Gracias and Poland's Boleslaw Filipiak are too ill to participate. (Like Yu Pin, they were likely to join the conservative bloc.) If Viet...
...election decree continued the centuries-old ban on vote trading and open campaigning but encouraged more discreet activity: "We do not have the intention of forbidding the exchange of views concerning the election during the period in which the see is vacant." Exchanges were certainly taking place in Rome last week. Said one Italian member of the conclave: "The Cardinals discuss everything about the papabili...