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...would constitute "de facto recognition...of a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty." The Vatican supports no such thing. Weeks later, it signed an agreement with the P.L.O., whose preamble stated that unilateral actions by any party in Jerusalem are "morally and legally unacceptable." The Israelis were furious, but the trip was kept on track...
...given Karol Wojtyla's job description and his trip's locus, little else about it is personal or simple. A billion Roman Catholics and innumerable other Christians will follow his every encounter in the footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...
...feast day marking the angelic announcement to a young Nazarene Jew that she would give birth to the Son of God. Last year the Israeli government appalled the Vatican by issuing a permit for a mosque to be built near the basilica. There was dark talk that the trip would be scuttled. It wasn't but another problem arose. The 25th is a Saturday, and 2,000 Jewish religious figures protested that attending Israeli policemen would be forced to break the Sabbath...
...told, 18,000 of Israel's 26,000 police will patrol the trip, which Israeli police chief Yehuda Wilk calls "the most complicated in [Israel's] history." There are concerns about terrorist missiles (the Pope, atypically, will travel in a Blackhawk helicopter, a small target) and about the itinerary's effect on his health ("at the limit of what's prudent," says a veteran of 60 papal trips). And the expense: just one preparation, the hollowing of a hillside near the town of Korazim for a papal Mass, cost the Israelis $3 million...
...biological-weapons program. So before police searched Ford's property, they closed a nearby elementary school and evacuated about 50 families from the neighborhood, putting them up at a local Hyatt Regency. One of the neighbors, a balding, middle-aged man loading up a van for a family ski trip, shook his head in bewilderment. "This doesn't happen in yuppieland," he said...