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"There will be no political or aggressive message directed toward the East," declared Vienna's Franz Cardinal König on the eve of Pope John Paul ll's four-day visit to Austria. But the Pontiffs carefully worded pronouncements could not entirely escape political hemidemisemiquavers during last week's trip. John Paul's most explicit address came the day of his arrival. During vespers on the Heldenplatz, in the heart of "imperial" Vienna, he praised a crowd of about 100,000 Austrians for their nation's "willingness to open its boundaries to people from other countries deprived of the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech and respect for human dignity." That evening at the Vienna soccer stadium, the Pope warned his youthful audience (in fluent German) against "drugs and casual sexual encounters," and dismissed the notion of a "different, novel sort of church." On the third day of his visit, he led a group of Polish émigrés in religious and national songs and, at another point, was seen reading a pamphlet titled Solidarity in Work. Asked at the end of the journey whether such visits might be a source of encouragement to Catholics in neighboring Czechoslovakia and other East bloc countries, John Paul replied, "Yes, I am very convinced of this."
—By Guy D. Garcia
On the Record
Daniel Boorstin, 68, historian: "Reading is like sex. It is often undertaken in bed, and people are not inclined to underestimate either the extent or the effectiveness of their activity."
James Baldwin, 59, novelist: "Everybody wants an artist on the wall or on the shelf, but nobody wants him in the house."
Erica Jong, 41, author, on women's liberation: "We won the right to be eternally exhausted. I can just see my daughter's generation saying I'm not going to give it away. I'm going to wait until I'm taken care of."