WORLD IN BRIEF : VATICAN CITY : Pope Set to Arrive at Tanzania Capital
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
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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