Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every Latin revolutionary who visits Boston is as welcome as Santiago Carrillo. Five cuban citizens who came last week did not even feel safe having their visit mentioned here publicly until after they had returned to Havana. As members of the World Student Christian Federation they were among the first Cubans admitted into the United States in 15 years. Despite their official U.S. visas, however, these Fidelistas were still potential targets for attack by the "Cubans from Miami," the exiles from Fidel's Revolution...
Piedra also defended the Cuban Communist Party statute that prohibits members of the church from joining the party. Church members are still full citizens, he claimed. They can run for elected office, although they are denied positions in the political vanguard identified with the party. The exclusion of Christians from this group is justified, he said. "since all Christian [political] alternatives have led to failure." Citing the role of the Christian Democrats in Chile, he partially blamed them for the fascist coup that toppled the freely elected Allende government...
...Cuba, all five agreed, the party leads the Revolution and the church follows, dragging its feet with every step. The five Christians--one Methodist and four Presbyterians--saw the Catholic Church, with its displaced petit bourgeois following, as the most reactionary force left in Cuba. In particular, the Catholic Church and to some extent the entire Christian church, has acted as an enormous barrier to the liberation of Cuba's women...
...left out. Hannukkah is a piddly, minor holiday, so don't tell us we have our own Christmas. And don't tone down the festivities for our sake; I don't think we want that hung on us. Just try to understand that if we seem confused by the Christian world around us, it's because we are. Stephen Cohen...
Gentleman and scholar, diplomat and master painter, Peter Paul Rubens was that rare artist, at home with himself and his society. His orchestrations of the Christian, the mythic and the historical have endured as voluptuous celebrations of human passion and faith. Marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, Rubens by Frans Baudouin (Abrams; 405 pages; $60) pays rich tribute to the Flemish master with a gallery of 278 illustrations and a meticulous text tracing his stylistic development and the temper of his times...