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To: Neocon who wrote (7265)	5/8/1999 8:19:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Hi Neocon, Regarding this Papal visit in Romania, did you know that IT'S THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY FOR A CATHOLIC POPE TO VISIT AN ORTHODOX COUNTRY?? Since the Great Schism in 1054 A.C., high-ranking officials of both the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches have never convened for such a symbolic ''courtesy'' visit... Make no mistake: this is no accident nor coincidence! It just demonstrates what I was talking about in my previous posts: the Vatican is worried about an eventual spiritual defeat of its long-time ''Orthodox partner'' and the Pope doesn't want his successors in the XXIst century to get awaken every morning by the 5-o'clock shout of the Muezzin across the Adriatic... Hence, this Papal visit is to be interpreted as a diplomatic support from the Vatican for the Orthodox cause. I think it's a much more important event than Iran's Ayatollah Khatami visiting the Pope earlier this year... Maybe another prediction of mine will get fulfilled: the ''pilgrimage'' to Belgrade by Western European far-rightist leaders... After all, Western Europe has also its ''cardless'' people to deal with, that is African immigrants who managed to enter Europe without a visa. They almost suffer the same prejudice as the Kosovars whom the Serbs have confiscated their ID-cards. Note that I'm not talking of Eastern European immigrants --those are not brutalized and systematically expelled from Fortress Europe --again: the Christian/Barbarian divide. Hopefully, a few hundreds of Muslim Albanians who ''won the GreenCard Lotery'' have been sheltered in the U.S.A.... I heard First Lady Hillary R. Clinton the other day claiming that in a couple of years from now, all these folks will be eligible to the US citizenship --I think that's about the same time when the temporary residence license granted to those who've been allowed in Western Europe will expire...