POPE MAKES SURPRISE APPEARANCE AT HOSPITAL WINDOW, WAVES TO CROWD.

(From ONASA News Agency)

ROME, Feb 27 (ONASA - AFP) - Pope John Paul II made a surprise appearance at his hospital window Sunday, his first since undergoing surgery on his throat last Thursday. Aides wheeled the 84-year-old pontiff to the window shortly after midday. John Paul II waved to the applauding crowd outside the hospital, made the sign of the cross and touched his throat briefly as he lingered at the closed window for a couple of minutes. The pope, who had a tracheotomy on Thursday to ease his breathing after a relapse of his flu, was unable to perform the official Sunday Angelus blessing at St Peter's Square, which was given in his name by an aide, …