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- <text id=90TT2427>
- <title>
- Sep. 17, 1990: World Notes:Ivory Coast
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 17, 1990 The Rotting Of The Big Apple
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- World Notes
- IVORY COAST
- A Monumental Dispute
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When Pope John Paul II concludes his 10-day tour of Africa
- this week with a stop in the Ivory Coast to visit the Basilica
- of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, he will be consecrating
- the biggest church on the African continent. But critics of the
- structure, which cost more than $200 million, charge that the
- Pope will also be giving his blessing to the monumental
- extravagance of Ivorian President Felix Houphouet-Boigny. In
- response to questions about where the funds came from, the
- President insists that he used his own fortune to finance the
- basilica.
- </p>
- <p> Embarrassed Catholic leaders have tried to stress the
- basilica's importance as a bulwark of Christianity. But others
- say Houphouet-Boigny has more earthly aims: to use the Pope's
- visit to clinch a seventh successive five-year term in the
- upcoming presidential elections.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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