11.   An anti-abortion activist holed himself up in the Paris residence of the papal nuncio Wednesday and was demanding political asylum from the Vatican, police said.

12.   He warmly embraced Dominican President Leonel Fernandez before members of the Dominican diplomatic corps, including a representative of the papal nuncio.

13.   He warmly embraced the Dominican president before members of the Dominican diplomatic corps, including a representative of the papal nuncio.

14.   No one answered the telephone at the papal nuncio.

15.   No one was available to comment at the papal nuncio in Washington.

16.   Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek and the papal nuncio Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk were present at the ceremony in the presidential palace.

17.   President Franjo Tudjman, Zagreb Archbishop Josip Bozanic and papal nuncio Giulio Einaudi were at the airport to greet the pope.

18.   The comments by papal nuncio Monsignor Francesco Monterisi were the closest the Vatican has come to calling for intervention since the fall of Srebrenica last week.

19.   The papal nuncio said his trip was meant only to bring the idea of peace and reconciliation to the embattled state.

20.   The Vatican sent its condolences through the papal nuncio in Nicaragua, the country hardest-hit by the storm.