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The article reports on the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. The pope was commemorating the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's pioneering when he was shot at by Mehmet Ali Agca. After being shot at, the Pope stood immobile for an instant and then collapsed backward into the arms of his personal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw. He was then taken to the Gemelli hospital in Rome, Italy.

The article focuses on the problems in the exercise of leadership in the U.S. It states that the problems of leadership in the U.S. were rooted in the difficulty of Americans to lead, wherein they lack trust in their leaders and institutions. It mentions that the rose in the level of education in the U.S. had improved the talent of Americans which made leaders to be drawn and made followers to be impossible to lead. It says that U.S. President Jimmy Carter had been an inadequate and dispiriting figure as he was blamed by Americans for the exhaustion of the oil fields, the greed of Arabs, as well as their own greediness. It adds that the nation's leaders of the 1980s should rediscover new themes of purpose in American life.

The article highlights the two award-winning films "Coming Home" and "The Deer Hunter," which explores the American experience during the war in Vietnam. It says that Jane Fonda has won the Best Actress award for her role in "Coming Home," an antiwar film centered on the suffering of injured American veterans. It also offers comparisons between the two films. The article also mentions several television shows, plays and memoirs that ultimately provide a mythic truth of American experience in Vietnam.

The article focuses on the defeat of the Democrats in the U.S. presidential election. It states that Democrats need to recover the internal discipline and philosophical coherence. It states that Democrats must address six basic realities including the energy crisis, nationalism in the Third World, and the need to be competitive economically in world trade.

The article provides information on various aspects of Oath as followed in U.S. It informs that oaths are relevant in legal proceedings and government jobs. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that workers have right to strike but they should not be government employees as they are bound by oath. It further informs that oaths may have sinister use if it is blood oath taken by a mafia, but contracts and oaths are the acts of will that make a society coherent.

The article discusses the presidential campaign in the U.S. It states that the Presidential campaigns threatens to become almost constant. It also states that the political campaigning should be taken as serious instrument for the purpose of gaining power. It also states that the perpetual campaign has produced a huge life of its own, with a primitive instinct for self-preservation.

In this article, the author reflects upon the need for starting the tradition of national poet laureate in the U.S. He mentions the laureateships awarded to poets in England and the poems written by them over political conditions of the country, and discusses the benefits of having poet laureates who can write verses on the U.S. politics. He also discusses the necessity of giving independence to such poets in their writings.

The article focuses on U.S. former-President Richard Nixon's first public appearance in Hyden, Kentucky since his resignation from the office on August 1974. It states that Nixon has rejected 100,000 public appearance invitations since he flew away to his self-imposed house arrest in San Clemente, California. However, Nixon has accepted an invitation to grace the opening of a recreation center, which was built through his revenue-sharing program in the state. It notes that Nixon's visit in the state was welcomed by the people despite his controversial leadership, however, critics reckon that his presence arouses extremes of feelings, distaste and contempt.

The article explores the terrorism in West Germany which is credited to the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Red Army Faction. Police estimate that there are no more than 50 committed terrorists abetted by about 2,000 active sympathizers in a population of more than 61 million. It is considered that the problem associated with terrorism torments Germans due to the history that hunts them and their sensitivity about their image in the rest of the world. Different theories are proposed to explain the poison of German terrorist.

The article focuses on the loss of indignation of Americans towards the political scandals involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon. It states that the frontal assault made by George McGovern, Nixon's competitor for U.S. presidency, to various scandals such as the Watergate scandal and International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT) affair had offered an absence of outrage. It mentions that Americans still separate the competition for presidency from the political scandals.

The article informs that the death of politician George Jackson has raised questions about the meaning of political prisoners. It informs about the political prisoner Angela Y. Davis who is accused of supplying guns to Jackson's brother in a shootout at the Marin County Courthouse in California in 1970. According to many literals, all African-American prisoners in jails of the U.S. are political prisoners. Seymour Martin Lipset, a sociologist has defined Jackson as a political prisoner.

The article focuses on the functions and operating politics of American television. It states that television could electronically unite different culture including theater, concerts, and newspapers if it would be allowed by the audience. It mentions that the role of minorities in television programs including women, blacks and ethnic groups are underrepresented particularly in dramas, as reported by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. It says that the Commission suggested the formulation of regulations by the Federal Communications Commission to promote diversity in television. Meanwhile, television writer Ben Stein notes the infestation of liberal smart in television entertainment shows, which is both antimilitary and antibusiness as explored in his book "The View from Sunset Boulevard."

The article highlights the delineation made by Massachusetts Senator George F. Hoar that suggests what political parties used to be in the U.S. It mentions that the labels were a man who called himself a Democrat embraced impulses, assumptions, leaders and even a culture very different from those of the man who called himself a Republican while political parties functioned in a sense like secular churches, with doctrines and powers of intercession. It is stated that political parties have almost collapsed as a force in American politics. Moreover, the decline of the parties is part of the atomizing process of American culture in which the individualistic instincts in the society have became much more powerful in politics than the majoritarian impulse.