Word: claverly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others accuse Marcos' regime of torturing political prisoners and of moving the Philippines toward "totalitarianism." Bishop Francisco J. Claver recently declared that the suppression of freedom of speech, press and assembly had created a national mood of "fear and uncertainty, cynicism and distrust." A handful of young priests have gone even further; they have joined the Communists, and a few are suspected of having planned guerrilla actions. The government has responded by raiding several churches and convents and interrogating their members...
...blacks; he was relieved of pastoral duties after taking part in a 1970 Philadelphia draft-record burning. FATHER NEIL MCLAUGHLIN, 30, also of Baltimore, went to St. Charles and St. Mary's and came under the Phil Berrigan influence in 1964 while doing summer work at St. Peter Claver Church; he has worked in the Baltimore black ghetto ever since. He turned increasingly to antiwar activity after the riots following the death of Martin Luther King Jr., and was relieved of pastoral duties a year...