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...chant that swelled last week from the throats of Cairo street mobs marked a significant Middle East turning point. Cairenes were in the streets wailing in protest against a bizarre series of events on nearby Cyprus that began with a political assassination and climaxed in a massacre. The murder victim: Youssef Sebai, 60, author, chairman-editor of Egypt's semiofficial daily newspaper al-Ahram and a close friend of Anwar Sadat's. Sebai's slaying, by two Palestinian gunmen in the lobby of Nicosia's Cyprus Hilton, made him the first victim of Sadafs peace initiative...
...Keep your hands off-my job!) That chant by demonstrators protesting dismissals by Montedison, Italy's giant chemical company, rang out ominously last week-a part of a Greek chorus that increasingly laments an economy gone sour. A glance at Italy's stained ledger...
...correspondents covering the movement were an ecumenical group. James Wilde, on the West Coast, marveled at the faith of the Evangelicals, but says that he remains "an un repentant papist. I prefer the pomp of Rome, the scarlet Cardinals and Gregorian Chant...
...stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell us?" "He alone is poor who does not believe in himself," they chant in unison...
...Planned Parenthood opened a new headquarters and a clinic for abortions and birth control, the building was doused with gasoline and set afire earlier this year. Rebuilt, it now is being picketed daily. Says Tom Webber, executive director of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota: "They say the rosary here. They chant it in a circle on our front sidewalk. A nun even splashed our building with holy water. My life has been threatened a number of times, all in the name of a higher morality...