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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1960
Page
3
Rome crowds hailed Pope John XXIII as he attended Palm Sunday at St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica. He traveled from the Vatican with 22 Cardinals, blessing palms and participating in the procession to the altar and courtyard during the service.
About one thousand fifty nine Koreans from Japan arrived at Dongjin port in North Korea on Sunday. Radio Pyongyang reported the total repatriated since December reaches sixteen thousand three hundred seventy eight. Pope John II plans two more pre Easter services at St John Lateran and St Mary Major, recalling remarks on ecumenical council preparations as a major hope for the universal church.
The Pontiff publicly praised Dr. Ernst J. Opik for leadership in astronomy and announced a Lawrence Smith medal award for outstanding work. He appeared briefly at St. Peter's Square to bless visitors while a sunlit Rome drew crowds, amid references to debates on church restrictions in Communist lands.
In Taipes Formosa a controversy over Confucius birth date ended with a government press release stating 551 B C as the year. The Education Ministry and Academia Sinica had been ordered to review protests after a 550 B C date was published last year.
The African adult special committee reports definite proof of Chinese actions in Tibet. Former President Herbert Hoover, aged 85, is named to a board of trustees for an American group pushing to have Tibet declared a religious freedom issue at the United Nations. The effort labels Tibet as a target of genocide and seeks U.N. action through a nonpartisan political group backing human rights and conservative candidates.
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