The World - News from March 23, 1988
Pope John Paul II renewed his standoff with the Soviet Union by declining an invitation to visit Moscow on the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in that nation. Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, at a press briefing in Vatican City, said the Russian Orthodox Church had asked the Pope to send a delegation to the celebrations, scheduled for June, but that the pontiff will not attend. John Paul has said he would not go to the Soviet Union unless he is allowed to visit such Roman Catholic areas as the Ukraine and Lithuania. Moscow in the past has refused.
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