Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affair, Runcie offered no response to the attack. Senior ecclesiastics instantly rushed to the primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood, 60, as a successor to Runcie...
...these back-pew analyses depended in part upon who wrote the incendiary essay. Suspicions quickly narrowed to a handful of clerics with the requisite conservative opinions and insider's knowledge. Bennett fit perfectly. He was an ally of London's Bishop Graham Leonard, a champion of the Anglo-Catholics, and served on two powerful panels that set the General Synod agenda and nominated bishops. Bennett, who was known for his probity, vociferously denied he was the writer. But after his death the two lay officials who assigned the author admitted that they had selected Bennett...
Five days earlier a parallel siege ended at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, La., where 998 Cuban detainees held 26 prison employees. Standing in the back of a pickup truck, Miami's Cuban-born Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman was driven slowly past the center's wire fences. "My brothers, give me your weapons," pleaded the frail Roman Catholic clergyman. "Give me the hostages. No man can ask for freedom while denying it to others." One by one, the detainees placed machetes, pipes, handmade spears and nail-studded sticks in a pile amid the ruins of the administration building. Said...
...Though Bishop was beloved by most Grenadians, a bust of the slain leader, its nose chipped off, stands desolate in a cemetery overlooking Queen's Park, where the U.S. Marines set up camp during what the locals call the rescue mission. The remaining leftists on the island are having a hard time attracting support. Although most observers say socialism has run its course in Grenada, skeptics contend that many leftist sympathizers are simply lying...
...belong to Blaize's New National Party, five have defected to Brizan's National Democratic Congress. Some fear Brizan may split the country's political center and ensure the return of former Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, whose eccentric, right-wing regime during the late 1970s led to Bishop's rise...