Pope honors Mary at Lourdes shrine
Pope John Paul II addressed about 150000 pilgrims at Lourdes to honor Mary and celebrate the second millennium of her birth. He spoke of Christ’s birth and Mary’s earthly birth, delivered in French, with pigeons released as crowds cheered in cool meadow Weather.
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Lourdes
France
John Paul II
John Paul
Christ
Mary
Heaven
Our Lady of Lourdes
Europe
Bernadette Soubirous
Riot police disperse Gdansk protesters
In Gdansk Poland riot police broke up a march of more than 2 000 people after a Mass near the Lenin Shipyards. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa attended the service but did not join the march. The protest followed church services and aimed to spur a nationwide show of support on Aug 31, the third anniversary of Solidarity.
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Gdansk
Poland
Solidarity
Lenin Shipyards
Lech Walesa
France to Send 200 More Troops to Chad Amid Libyan Threat
France dispatches 200 additional troops to Chad to bolster the army against Libyan backed rebels and places four warplanes on standby in the Central African Republic. Reinforcements raise total French forces in Chad to about 700 with missions to train loyalist forces and defend key sites including N'Djamena Abeche and Salal while denying combat duties.
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N'Djamena
Chad
France
Central African Republic
Paris
Charles Herru
Sala
N’djamena
Soumaila Mahamat
Faya-Largeau
Goukouni Oueddei
Muammar Khadafy
Goukouni
Hissene Habre
U.S
Reagan
Habre
Sudan
United States
Libya
Washington
Khadafy
Abeche
Salal
Ati
Zaire
Kinshasa
Brazzaville
Congo Republic
Congo
Soviet Union
Central America
U.S.A
Central Africa
Soviet Communist Party
Pravda
Sovietskaya Rossiya
Soviet Party
Central Committee
Africa
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Lourdes Shrine
Pope John Paul I
St. Brygida
Henryk Jankowski
Walesa
Jankowski
Continental Aniines
SSR
Warsaw
Continental Airlines
Odessa
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