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...outdoorsman described by an Australian newspaper as "built like a rugby front-row forward"--to be energetic. Yet even St. Paul, the archetypal evangelist, might have wondered at John Paul's 1989, a fairly typical year, featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, Malawi, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Mauritius. His visits, especially to the Third World's farthest outposts, projected a sense of a true church universal. The Pope would arrive at each destination and kiss the airport tarmac. With his square jaw, actor's timing and facility with languages, he established...
...visit a mosque, or launch a website, or commemorate the Holocaust at Auschwitz or find in a broken world so many saints of the church--more saints, in fact, than all his predecessors combined. Master of a dozen languages, he was the first modern Pope to visit Egypt, Spain, Canada, Cuba, Ireland or Brazil, the equivalent of circling the globe 31 times. To half the world's people, he was the only Pope they have ever known, or mourned. Thus the prayers came not just from the Catholic faithful but also from Muslims in France and Jews at Jerusalem...
...Manufacturers and unions alike are howling for protection. Adrià Serra, president of Spain's textile trade group Consejo Intertextil Espa?ol, says unless urgent action is taken, the import flood will spell "a disaster." Mario Maselli, owner of Emmetex, a textile producer in the Italian town of Prato, complains that "this is ever more a market where one side battles with two hands and the other has one hand tied behind its back...
...Certainly, there's a lot to lose. The E.U. is the largest world market for clothing and textiles. But it's also a huge exporter: its 170,000 textile and clothing firms have annual revenues of more than ?200 billion and employ 2.6 million people. In France, Italy, Spain and especially the E.U.'s newest members in Central and Eastern Europe, the sector is a critical part of the economy. In Lithuania, for example, it accounts for as much as 8% of gross domestic product. "The authorities must either take whatever steps are appropriate to persuade the Chinese to limit...
...Cross-Border Bank Raid Italian banks are suddenly under assault from European rivals. ABN Amro of the Netherlands is expected to announce a bid for Banca Antoniana Popolare Veneta, Italy's ninth-largest bank, as early as this week. That follows this month's €6.5 billion bid by Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria for the 85% of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro it doesn't already own. The moves amount to an earthquake for Italian banks, which are all firmly in Italian hands and have until now been able to count on the Bank of Italy to protect them...