Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, December 18, 1994                   TAG: 9412200034
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A17   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                 LENGTH: Short

TIME PICKS POPE MAN OF THE YEAR

``In a year when so many people lamented the decline in moral values or made excuses for bad behavior, Pope John Paul II forcefully set forth his vision of the good life and urged the world to follow it,'' Time writes in its Dec. 26 issue.

Time noted that the pope's pronouncements are not universally acclaimed - for example, critics see the Catholic Church's refusal to endorse condom use as irresponsible in this era of AIDS.

As evidence of the pope's influence, Time noted his best seller, ``Crossing the Threshold of Hope''; his extensive travels, curbed of late by ill-health; and his success at the U.N.'s International Conference on Population and Development, where his emissaries defeated a U.S.-backed proposition that he argued would encourage abortion.

Last year Time picked F.W. deKlerk, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, honored as The Peacemakers.