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Members of the Northampton Committee on El Salvador, the Western Massachusetts Latin American Solidarity Committee and representative of UMass's Radical Student Union the People's Gay Alliance and Students Against Militarism, along with clergymen and businessmen, were at the sot-in the Massachusetts, Daily Collegian, UMass's campus newspaper reported last week...
...years old. The two repressive measures have become part of the grim pattern of national life. Over the years, banning and detention have been used to silence more than 1,500 critics of the regime, including 350 people seized during the Soweto riots in 1976 and scores of journalists, clergymen and antiapartheid leaders following the death in custody of Stephen Biko...
Vinogradov argued that the growing discontent of fundamentalist, right-wing clergymen with Khomeini's policies, together with what he called the "CIA-backed leftists" of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (People's Crusaders), had brought Iran to the brink of a civil war. Vinogradov told Mousavi that Iran would be ripe for a U.S.-backed counterrevolution. His deal: increased Soviet protection, presumably in the form of arms and technical advisers, in exchange for a formal five-to ten-year "friendship and mutual assistance treaty" between the U.S.S.R. and Iran. The Kremlin would stand ready to defend Iran against "foreign...
Adam S. Cohen's review of The Pope's Divisions: The Roman Catholic Church Today by Peter Nichols was so blatantly anti-Catholic that I have no choice but to respond. Mr. Cohen reveals his bias immediately when he says, "the book's dust jacket...features two Catholic clergymen praising the book's analysis," and implies 'we should therefore conclude the book to be full of lies. Apparently Mr. Cohen still views the Church as a bunch of sinister wizards plotting to take over the world from the Vatican, a view which even most Protestant fundamentalists no longer hold...
...first tip-off should come from the book's dust jacket, which features two Catholic clergymen praising the book's analysis. The Catholic Church, of course, hardly has a reputation for its graceful acceptance of criticism. Kind words from people who were still publishing an Index of acceptable books after World War II should perk a few suspicions. And as it turns out, Nichols is an avowedly sympathetic critic, very much intrigued by the faith, and himself married to a Catholic. He is on good terms with much of the Vatican, and indeed many of his anecdotes begin with...