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Two days of black smoke
emerging from Vatican City's Sistine Chapel have environmentalists up in
arms.
"This has got to stop," warned Jeffrey Salton, international chairman of
Greenfleece, the environmental fund-raising organization. "In today's era
of modern electronic communications, it's not too much to ask that the
church stop polluting Rome's air with smoke signals."
A spokesman for the Catholic Church explained that cardinals have been
attending a private meeting inside the chapel, which is not equipped with
modern communications.
"Smoke signals are their only choice," said Monsignor Anthony Vaccaro,
director of public relations.
Black smoke emerged from the chapel several times on Monday and Tuesday,
while Greenfleece pickets paraded around Vatican Square, coughing in
unison.
CNN's Larry King plans to feature Native American smoke signal experts on
his Tuesday night show in an attempt to interpret the meaning of the
intermittent puffs of dark smoke.
FNN's Bill O'Reilly, whose show airs an hour earlier in most markets,
hoped to make peace with Native American college professor Ward Churchill,
whom he has sharply criticized in the recent past.
"If Prof. Churchill can read those signals for my vast audience," O'Reilly
said, "that will make amends for his taking positions that oppose my own."
When reached by reporters, Churchill said he doubted O'Reilly has a vast
audience.
"I'd call it half-vast," said Churchill.
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