Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wine list and tenderloin with bearnaise sauce but holds mashed potatoes and meat loaf in contempt. American reporters discuss stories that straddle two worlds: a log-sawing contest in Brooklin, Me., and drug-awareness week at nearby Bucksport High. These days lawyers and real estate agents seem to outnumber clergymen and clam diggers. Even the lilting Down East accent, once spoken as if it were passing over a dip on a backwoods road, is losing its curls...
...contras, meanwhile, were feeling the heat for three alleged kidnapings. Two Nicaraguan clergymen, released last week after an eleven-day captivity, charged that the rebels had threatened to kill them. Witness for Peace, a U.S. human rights group, charged that a volunteer, Paul Fisher, had been abducted. Rebel Spokeswoman Marta Sacasa said that all three men had been detained for their own protection and promised that Fisher would be released "as soon as there are secure circumstances...
...several progressive clergymen who joined this summer's attack on the government is the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, an energetic priest with a solid constituency among the hundreds of thousands of discarded people who live in the slums of Port-au-Prince. He is known as the priest of the poor, and visitors walking through the hallways of the church compound where he works are likely to stumble over abandoned children who use the place as a sort of unofficial clubhouse, sleeping and playing ferocious games of cards and marbles...
...sinister "raincoats" of the government or by the radicals within his own church? Who is threatened most by his unbending faith? What is the price of compromise? And who is using whom, and why? The confusion is only deepened as Bem meets government officials who are as kind as clergymen, and churchmen as murderous as politicians...
...shelter in the black and Hispanic communities, AIDS is a prickly subject. Both the black churches and the Roman Catholic Church have traditionally been bastions of conservative values on sexual and social matters, and the idea of preaching the use of condoms and clean needles is difficult for many clergymen. In the Hispanic community, moreover, where the cult of machismo still reigns, men regard even the discussion of condoms as a diminishment of manhood...