Word: archbishop
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...Middle Eastern expert who had been working as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, Davies, 53, presented his credentials in Nicosia just five days before the coup that ousted Archbishop Makarios, Cyprus' President, and launched the island on its path to disaster. A quiet professional, he sought to convince both Greeks .and Turks on the island that the U.S. was interested in a just settlement and had tried to douse the wildfire of bitter anti-Americanism among the Greek Cypriots. In the face of the passions unleashed by the fighting on the island, the odds against...
...past year. Last April he claimed that more than $750,000 in cash was stolen from his Jerusalem residence. When police investigated the theft, Capucci insisted that the money had been returned, and asked them to drop the matter. His behavior seemed particularly strange because he is an archbishop of the Melchite Catholic Church (which is autonomous from but in union with Roman Catholicism, and recognizes the Pope as premier patriarch) and vicar of the 5,000 Arabic-speaking Melchites living in and around Jerusalem...
Israeli security officers finally moved this month against the 52-year-old, Syrian-born archbishop, who had changed his name to the Italianate Capucci from his family's Turkish name, Kapugi. As he re-entered Jerusalem from one of his trips into Lebanon, agents found stashed away under the seats, in the trunk and inside the doors of his car dozens of pounds of explosives, detonators, four Soviet-made automatic rifles, two pistols, bullets and grenades...
Last week the archbishop was rearrested on suspicion of smuggling weapons to terrorists. A search of his villa revealed additional caches of weapons and ammunition, leading an Israeli officer to exclaim: "Capucci is the biggest supplier of arms and ammunition to terrorist organizations on the West Bank since the 1967 war." He is suspected of having been linked directly to several recent terrorist activities, including the aiming of North Korean-made Katyusha rockets at the area of the city where U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stayed during his May visit to Israel; the rockets were discovered before a timing...
Church officials first quietly offered the Morreales a compromise: the baptism would be allowed if Mrs. Morreale would privately drop her support for Baird. She refused, because "it felt somehow like a bribe." Boston's archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, told a TV newsman that no priest in the archdiocese would baptize the child unless Mrs. Morreale backed down. Baird countered with a dramatic nationwide call for a volunteer to perform the baptism...