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...fearless archbishop falls victim to the terror of a torn nation...
...Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdames, Archbishop of San Salvador...
...military coup against the junta. Part of a $50 million U.S. aid package has been earmarked to help get the program off the ground. Still, the reforms have been criticized both by the right, which called them "Communist-inspired," and by the left, which said they were merely "cosmetic." Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the regime, fears that the junta will use the reforms as an excuse to crack down even more ruthlessly on leftist sympathizers among the peasants. The junta, meanwhile, anticipating violence, announced a "state of siege," suspending constitutional rights, and deployed troops around banks...
Baum is softspoken, polite, bookish, a man who tries to avoid open confrontation. He has a fondness for fine food, art and opera. His taste: Mozart always, Verdi and Wagner occasionally. "There are days when you just can't listen to Wagner," he says. As Archbishop of Washington, B.C., for nearly seven years, he succeeded cut-and-slash Conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle. Baum calmed tempers and tried to strike a balance between outraged church loyalists and Catholic University of America professors who regularly question papal pronouncements...
...picture of the archbishop mixing his cocktails [Feb. 4] reminds me of my Kabul days when, soon after Japan entered the war, the wine stocks of our Japanese legation became dangerously low. Yet at the Italian legation wine still flowed. I asked his Italian excellency if he had a pipeline to Rome, and he replied: "We've better than that: we have priests, and Afghanistan has grapes...