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...control of Yemen. His coup had originally been aimed at the feudalistic regime of the Imam known as Ahmad the Devil, who, aged 71, died of natural causes in mid-September before the conspirators could kill him. Ten days after Ahmad's son, Seif el Badr, ascended the throne, General Sallal surrounded the royal palace in San'a with 4,000 troops and began blasting away with tank guns. At first, the rebels believed that the new Imam had died in the ruins, but belatedly they learned that Badr had escaped, reportedly disguised as a Bedouin woman...
There was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Communist Poland, who raised a finger to his lips to hush those who were cheering him. There were, in all, 2,700 of them-the spiritual leaders of 500 million people. And in the rear of the procession, carried on a gilded throne, its white silk canopy glistening in the sun. came Pope John XXIII, who turned from side to side, his right hand constantly blessing the bobbing heads below...
...Present Protestants. Rather spryly, once he was in St. Peter's, Pope John climbed to. his throne under Bernini's baldacchino-"beside St. Peter's tomb," as he noted in the speech that he made after the opening religious rites. In careful Latin, he explained to the bishops the purpose of the council...
...whole world expects a step forward toward a doctrinal penetration . . . studied and expounded through the methods of research and through the literary forms of modern thought." In effect, he recognized the value of recent Biblical scholarship, invited a new interpretation of doctrine. Closer to the Pope's throne than even the bishops were the 28 non-Catholic Christian observers, and to them he spoke of the "visible unity in truth" of Christians, and of Catholicism's striving "to have men welcome more favorably the good tidings of salvation and prepare and consolidate the path toward unity of mankind...
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's minority Conservative Government survived all threats to its existence last week. In the traditional Throne Speech debate, which allows the Opposition to tee off on every subject under the sun. the three opposition parties, who together have a majority of the Commons' 265 seats, denounced the Diefenbaker government's management of everything from A (for austerity) to U (for unemployment). But in two crucial votes of confidence, the right-wing Social Credit Party, like the Tories, in no mood for an early election, sided with the government to keep it in power...