101.   A recent survey suggested that fewer than one in three Bulgarians has a real understanding of who the pope is.

102.   After a day of masses and prayer Tuesday in Guatemala, the pope was to fly Wednesday morning to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital.

103.   After the Mass, the pope was to spend the rest of the day before the vigil began by resting and having lunch at the nunciature residence.

104.   As he arrived from Rome earlier, the pope was welcomed in Jordan by King Abdullah II along with Christian and Muslim clerics.

105.   As a young man, the pope was a licensed racer in Poland.

106.   As in Greece, the pope was to reach out to non-Catholics during his four-day stay in mainly Muslim and officially secular Syria.

107.   At the time, the pope was at his residence in Manhattan.

108.   Before the visit, Castro had declared the pope would be free to say whatever he wanted in Cuba.

109.   Before departing for Rome, the pope was to visit the grave of his parents and say a private Mass with a small circle of friends.

110.   Both felt the pope was correct in highlighting the responsibility of Third World leaders for unreasonable debt and for corruption in using money that was lent.