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...paradox is actually codified in Vietnam's laws: every citizen is guaranteed the right to worship, but "abuse of religious rights" is punishable by up to three years in prison. According to Zachary Abuza, a Vietnam expert at Simmonds College in the U.S., it is not individual faith that Hanoi opposes, but the prospect of a nationwide structure of authority that could topple the party's monopoly on power. Hanoi has thus appointed Vietnam's Catholic bishops since 1975, annoying the Vatican, which recently elevated an exiled Vietnamese bishop to cardinal. There are dissident priests in Vietnam, like Father...
...played by Nancy Abuza, Mrs. X is also a bit stilted. But her nervousness does seem essentially human, and we do get a sense of a definite character...
Although most of the undergraduates seemed to be in favor of bringing girls to New Haven, the Daily News, Yale's newspaper, came out against the change. Managing Editor Charles Abuza stated, "Yale is a sort of last bastion for males and we don't want to see it go." Robert Rossefsky, managing editor of the Yale Record, also opposed admitting women to the College, on similar grounds...
Berle, Betty Mutton, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Froman, Joe E. Lewis, got up to reminisce about buxom Sophie Abuza of Hartford, Conn., who became Sophie Tucker and made the long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie...
Divorce Revealed. Sonia Abuza Tuck Westphal Lackerman ("Sophie Tucker"), 50, actress, oldtime singer; from her third husband, one Albert Lackerman, Manhattan dress merchant; in Chicago (September 1933). Grounds: cruelty, demands for money, slapping...