WORLD IN BRIEF : VATICAN CITY : Pope Set to Arrive at Tanzania Capital
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Pope John Paul II, starting his seventh visit to Africa, is scheduled to leave Rome today to arrive at the Tanzanian capital of Dar-es-Salaam, with a brief fuel stop at Malta’s Luqa airport on the way. For 11 days, John Paul will tour Tanzania and its small neighboring republics of Burundi and Rwanda, with a 21-hour visit to the Ivory Coast in West Africa on his homeward flight to bless a controversial new cathedral that is a copy of St. Peter’s Basilica.
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