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...rich landowners, naming opponents inside and outside the new government as "subversives." A disturbing trend developed: some of those he mentioned were murdered shortly afterward. Calling D'Aubuisson "a pathological killer," former U.S. Ambassador Robert E. White has accused him of masterminding the March 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. White could never prove his charge, but allegations continue to haunt D'Aubuisson and his associates. Several members of his ARENA party are suspected of ties to the murder teams, as is Héctor Antonio Regalado, the former security chief for the Constituent Assembly. Again, nothing...
...race-relations quandary Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has a special task force with special administrators. He appears on late-night T.V. spots in a playground with an ethnic potpourri of children, speaking of "eracism" in English and Spanish. Mayor Raymond L. Flynn meets with Dukakis and the new Archbishop Bernard F. Law '53 in a highly publicized conference on bringing the city together. The Boston Covenant, formed after a Black student was shot on a Charlestown football field, and the Citywide Parents Council all continue to flail away at the invisible enemy...
...RESULT, Flynn, Dukakis, and Law--who, as archbishop, will prove to be a crucial figure in improving race relations in coming years--should focus their political and moral spotlight on institutional racism in Boston. The Globe put it succinctly and bluntly. "Boston today is the most difficult place in America for a Black person to hold a job or earn a promotion...
...over lunch with the Corporation Monday afternoon.... Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky will receive an honorary degree at Branders University's Commencement exercises May 20. He will be awarded a doctorate in Humane Letters. Rosovsky reportedly turned down the Brandeis presidency during his tenure as dean.....New Archbishop of Boston Bernard F. Law '53 will meet with Catholic undergraduates here Monday night...
...applying church teachings to contemporary problems. Two months ago, however, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concluded that Christ Among Us "was unsuitable as a catechetical text" and could not be made otherwise even with "substantial revisions." The Congregation's head, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, formally requested Archbishop Peter Gerety of Newark to remove his imprimatur. Without it, the book cannot be used in Catholic catechism classes; two weeks ago the Paulist Press bowed to the inevitable and stopped distributing...