Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Virgilio Godoy Reyes of the Independent Liberal Party, announced last week that he too was dropping out. "There are not sufficient guarantees for an electoral process," said a Liberal Party official. "The results could not sincerely reflect the majority will of the Nicaraguan people." If that were not enough, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, head of the national bishops' conference, last week criticized the junta for using "violent and repressive measures" and imposing "a regime that plunders, imprisons and constantly calls people to arms...
Shortly thereafter, J. Michael Bishop and his colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco found a virtually identical set of genes in cells of vertebrates including humans. And, in each case, a similar protein to Erikson's was produced...
...accused: 19 former government and army officials of Grenada. The charge: murder. Chief among their alleged victims was Maurice Bishop, the leftist Prime Minister who died, along with ten of his followers, on Oct. 19, 1983, precipitating the U.S. invasion of Grenada six days later. Prominent among the defendants are Bernard Coard, 40, and his wife Phyllis, 39. They led an extreme leftist faction within Bishop's government that allegedly sought to wrest control from the popular Marxist leader, presumably with the intention of pursuing even more radical policies after they had gained power...
...shantytown near Johannesburg, South Africa, Primary Schoolteacher Desmond Mpilo Tutu saw a white man respectfully tip his hat to a black woman. Tutu had never seen a white make such a gesture. The woman was Tutu's mother; the white was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, now an Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into the clergy, rising rapidly in the Anglican Church in southern Africa and becoming Bishop of Lesotho in 1976. Along...
Though two of his four children live in the U.S., Tutu is embittered over the current U.S. hands-off policy toward South Africa. The black leader advocates political, diplomatic and especially economic pressures from overseas to force whites to negotiate a sharing of power with blacks. But the bishop has never explicitly advocated boycotts or a cutoff of investments, which the A.N.C. last week declared would be a fitting response to Tutu's prize. Nonetheless, Tutu states that "I find what I have seen of capitalism and the free-enterprise system quite morally repulsive...