Alphabetical-physique rule seen shaping next papal election
Vatican report notes an aging, unscientific but long used alphabetic physique system for papal selection. It suggests past popes with an r in their surname tend to be heavier, while those without are thinner, shaping expectations for the next conclave amid debate over candidates and names like Pironio and Willebrands.
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James F. Hitchcock
Giovanni Mastai Ferretti
Pious IX
Quires
Giovanni Benelli
Florence
Austria
Franz Koenig
England
Basil Hume
Vatican
Sebastiano Baggio
Pericle Felici
Sergio Pignedoli
Jean Villot
Argentina
Eduardo Pironio
Holland
Johannes Willebrands
Pope Paul VI
Giovanni Battista Montini
Angelo Roncalli
John XXIII
Eugenio Pacelli
Pius XII
Damiano Achille Ratti
Pius XI
Giacomo Della Chiesa
Benedict XV
Giuseppe Sarto
Pius X
Gioacchino Pecci
Leo XIII
Ress
Bic
Ferretti
Soviet drop slander case against US reporters in Moscow
Washington cites cautious view on whether ending prosecution signals thaw in U.S.-Soviet ties. Judge Lev Almazov announced the state would drop insistence that Craig Whitney of the New York Times and Harold Piper of the Baltimore Sun retract critical reports. Whitney and Piper had been fined 3438 dollars. newspapers refused to retract, arguing stories based on dissident comments about a doctored confession on Soviet television.
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State Department
Soviet Union
Moscow
Lev Almazov
Craig Whitney
New York Times
Harold Piper
Baltimore Sun
Whitney
Piper
Tokyo designer unveils square watermelons for patent bid
Tokyo graphic designer Tomoyuki Ono displays two square watermelons on Ginza, planning to patent the cubic and tetrahedral melons. After the exhibit, the unique fruits are set to go on sale at 24 dollars each.
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Tokyo
Tomoyuki Ono
Warmth for Hua draws Romanian crowds on five day visit
Romanians crowd streets to greet Chinese Chairman Hua Kuo-feng as he tours Romania with President Nicolae Ceausescu. Police salute, flags wave, and officials pass out paper Chinese and Romanian banners while crowds chant Hua and Cha-ooshes-koo Hoo-ah-Ko-feng. Hua travels alone and with Ceausescu, drawing varying cheers before ending a five day stay en route to Yugoslavia and Iran.
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Romania
Hua Kuo-feng
Hua
Carpathian Alps
Nicolae Ceausescu
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Ceausescu
Europe
Mao Tsetung
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Iran
Mad Anter strikes Delafield with stencil art
The Mad Anter left 28 inch black ant stencils on several sites in Delafield and Wales, including Maney Hardware. Residents debate its decor value while police label it malicious mischief, and no complaints have been filed.
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Wales
Maney Hardware
Tom Maney
DML
John Barengo
China proposes four point plan on Chinese residents in Vietnam
AP report from Tokyo notes China offered Vietnam a four point proposal during Sino Vietnamese talks in Hanoi to stop persecution and expulsion of ethnic Chinese and to encourage voluntary Vietnamese nationality while aiding those at border points to return home or resettle in China. The talks involve 3 500 stranded Chinese and China cites about 160 000 having already returned. Norway anniversary and North China origin of paper cutting are also mentioned.
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Vietnam
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Hanoi
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