Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...archbishop did not fear death, even with murder all around him in bloody Burundi. Stories had been whispered about Joachim Ruhuna. One told of how during an ambush by thugs intent on killing him, he calmly asked for a moment to make his peace with God--a fearless request that virtually disarmed them, allowing him to go free. Though he had enemies on all sides, he regularly traveled without escort in a country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last...
Last week ethnic hatred overcame fear of divine retribution, and death came for the archbishop. At 5:30 on Monday afternoon, Ruhuna was returning to his see of Gitega, 50 miles east of the capital of Bujumbura, when attackers opened fire on his car. Summoned by a witness, rescuers reached the site to find only the smoldering carcass of the vehicle. The bodies of the passengers, including the archbishop, had vanished. In the car was the one possession Ruhuna left behind: the miter he wore to symbolize the power of his office and his church...
...playing sinuous, cynical men who are just a little too smart for their own good. In this case he's Martin Vail, a media-mad defense attorney in Chicago, who takes on--mostly for publicity--the case of a young man accused of murdering the city's beloved Catholic archbishop. Before he's through, Martin uncovers civic corruption, some hanky-panky with the alter boys, a double-twist ending and the idealism hidden deep in his heart. He also gets to banter winningly with the prosecuting attorney (Laura Linney), his once and (almost certainly) future lover...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL KROL, 85, archbishop; in Philadelphia. During his 27 years of leading the nation's sixth largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the Polish-American prelate was an opponent of abortion and nuclear weapons, a master builder of some 100 churches and a player in Vatican politics, where he was a force behind the rise of John Paul II to the papacy and an adviser on financial matters...
...indictments came only two days after Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, another Nobel laureate, was named head of the 17-member, multiracial Truth Commission, which will investigate crimes of the apartheid era. The panel will have the power to recommend amnesty or prosecution in each case, but to be eligible for amnesty, individuals will have to come forward and admit their guilt. Malan will have no part of this and will take his chances in court...