Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although strong sentiments were expressed for the continued involvement of the church in political and social affairs, there was deep division over the direction that commitment should take, especially in Latin America. Bishop Jose Ivo Lorscheiter of Santa Maria, president of Brazil's hierarchy, insisted that the controversial liberation theology movement does not "push toward violence." Neither, he said, does it "assume or justify Marxist ideology" or "break with Catholic theological tradition." To him, the movement is "indispensable to the church's activity and to the social commitment of Christians, even if it carries with it risks." A contrary view...
FOOTNOTE: *Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Peru and Venezuela...
...long since abandoned their ideals by the late '70s, when savage gang wars broke out over control of the U.S. heroin trade. Two of Buscetta's sons, a brother and four other relatives were killed during the bloodletting in Sicily. Buscetta, by then a Mafia chieftain, fled to Brazil, where he was arrested in 1983 on a fugitive warrant from Italy. He was talking now, he explained, because he wanted "security for my family." Some undisclosed survivors in his family (which includes his Brazilian-born third wife) are under U.S. protection...
...juniors participating in the tour will represent many of top squash playing countries in the world--Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Pakistan, India, Israel, Egypt, Sweden, Norway and Finland...
Last summer, Au Bon Pain hired a security guard at nights because drunks were harassing the bakery's patrons, said Louis C. Brazil, a company spokesman...