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...tiny enclave of Abkhazia, whose historical roots stretch back to more than a thousand years before Christ, has emerged as the keystone to Georgia's future as an independent state. Under pressure from Moscow, the insurgents suspended their drive for autonomy and endorsed a cease-fire in July. But when Shevardnadze's forces turned to the task of breaking a blockade imposed on the Georgian capital of Tbilisi by Gamsakhurdia's rebels, the Abkhazians struck again. Two weeks ago, fighters launched a ferocious attack on Sukhumi. Within 48 hours, surprise had enabled them to seize the heights overlooking the city...
...recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After one lass gives a jaunty account of Christ's miracle of the loaves and fishes, Sister Keating, the teacher, asks, " 'And what do we call that, Jane...
That left Chavis, the 45-year-old head of the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, as the fallback choice to revive the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Before that he had been best- known as the leader of the Wilmington 10, a band of activists imprisoned for burning down a grocery store and conspiring to shoot at policemen during a 1971 civil rights protest in North Carolina. The convictions were thrown out by a federal judge in 1980 on the grounds that the testimony of prosecution witnesses had been coerced by police...
...rings. University of Utah freshman Matt Irvine says many dress alternatively but have firm morals -- a buddy of his at the concert leaves for his two-year Mormon mission in a week. Lis Calder, 22, says the Utah alternative-music scene is a reaction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: "I was raised in a strict Mormon family. My aunt thinks there's an evil spirit surrounding rock music and if I listen to it I'll never find a husband...
...Pontiff has directed bishops "not to lose heart" or create a "climate of discouragement" around celibacy. He also reinforced church adherence to the rule of celibacy in his Holy Thursday missive to the world's priests, saying "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." As for the sinners among the ranks, many church officials feel they have little choice but to forgive. Says a Vatican official: "We'd all be in a mess if we couldn't be forgiven." However, for the women and children who have suffered, forgiveness is not only not divine, it is certainly...