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CESAR CHAVEZ and the United Farm Workers Union are among the most recognizable symbols of organized labor in the United States. Since the mid-'60s, Chavez has led a mostly uphill fight against growers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for the rights of migrant agricultural laborers. That movement, which has met varying degrees of success, appears to be over for the time being, following Chavez's announcement two weeks ago of the end of the decade-old boycott of non-union lettuce, grapes and table wines. To millions of UFW sympathizers, the announcement came as a surprise, since there...
...centuries, all branches of Christianity barred openly committed homosexuals from the clergy and from lay offices. Virtually all major U.S. churches still do. But the increasingly organized and vocal campaign by homosexuals to be treated just like everyone else poses particular problems for Christian churches. Their creed commands brotherhood and forgiveness, but it also obliges them to defend specific standards of conduct based on the Bible...
There has been some pushing and shoving among the rival Mafiosi but no shooting or open warfare so far. Some law-enforcement officials expect the top Mafia dons in the U.S. to designate the resort an open city, meaning that any member of the criminal brotherhood or its underworld allies can seek a piece of the action, as is the case in Las Vegas. The Mafia is already tolerating a group of Cuban hoodlums, the Malagamba gang from northern New Jersey, which has gained a foothold in Atlantic City's illicit market for cocaine, marijuana and hookers...
...adults and burning children alive." Were it not for the fact that thousands of helpless people have been killed or made homeless as a result of the fighting, the spectacle of a pair of rabidly Communist countries tearing at each other's throats, while professing the ideals of brotherhood, would have been called ludicrous...
...flashiest, most visible signs of the Evangelicals' rising prosperity. The real progress of the faith is less visible. It goes on at the grass-roots level from one convert to another in thousands of local congregations, some of them quite small and isolated. It is a highly personal brotherhood. And for most Evangelicals the experience of receiving Christ is the principal event of any Christian life...