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...Friday at the Federal Building in Providence to protest U.S. policy on El Salvador. In conservative Amarillo, Texas, Bishop Leroy Matthiesen is urging workers to quit the Pantex nuclear-bomb plant, resulting in a United Way cutoff of a $61,000 annual grant to Catholic Family Services. In Seattle, Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen is risking prosecution by refusing, as an anti-nuclear protest, to pay half his income taxes. San Francisco Archbishop John Quinn is asking his hospitals to ignore a Defense Department plan to allocate beds because, he says, it "contributes to the illusion of a winnable nuclear...
...party, ARENA. A recent Christian Democrat documentary, entitled D'Aubuisson Naked, showed film clips of the rightist leader making public threats against political and religious figures who were later assassinated or attacked. Images of the bodies or funerals were spliced into the film. Among the victims: the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated by a gunman while saying Mass at the altar on March...
...Major Blowtorch for his reputed skill at interrogating with that instrument. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert E. White, testifying before a U.S. Senate Committee, said that there is "evidence, if not 100% conclusive, that D'Aubuisson and his group are responsible for the murder of Archbishop Romero." White also linked D'Aubuisson to the right-wing death squads, a charge that D'Aubuisson denies. He has been accused of plotting to overthrow the present junta but never brought to trial...
...charges that he has been associated with death squads, was involved in the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero and is the front man for El Salvador's powerful oligarchy. It was to be expected that I would be attacked with these false words because we were the first to recognize what was coming over our country. We interrupted the plans they [the "subversives"] had. They focused their attention on us. But have they presented proof of their charges...
...approval of what has been done." An early test of that, on the Anglican side, will come in two months when John Paul goes to England, the first visit ever by a Pope. With news of the reunion proposals having leaked, there are already signs of resistance. Last week Archbishop of Canterbury Runcie was forced to abandon a speech on Catholic relations when 150 members of the Liverpool congregation he was addressing staged a noisy protest...