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Despite the clear absence of panic over the recent crackdown, members nevertheless viewed the future gloomily. "All of my family is over there and things are going to happen," a Somerville man who immigrated in 1963 said, adding, "I fear the soldiers are somewhere down the line going to shoot people...
...their puppets. The Polish workers are simply the latest victims to be sacrificed in the name of Soviet statism. Whether or not the Soviet Union intervenes militarily is unimportant at this point; the USSR will probably only refrain from doing so if the martial-law regime succeeds in its crackdown...
...show that Sadat's government was tyrannical, Atteya will try to call as witnesses some of the 1,536 people who were summarily arrested and imprisoned during the late President's September crackdown on dissidents. As for the defendants, he said, "They asked me to defend them not as persons but as a cause. They are sure they are going to their deaths...
...called the previous decade "a period of ecclesiastical decadence in which the people who had started it later on became incapable of stopping the avalanche." After Ratzinger was appointed Archbishop of Munich in 1977, he barred Liberation Theologian Johann Baptist Metz from a professorship and engineered the Vatican crackdown on his former colleague Küng. Ratzinger's shift prompted charges of opportunism; students broke up one of his campus appearances last year with booing and jeering chants...
...dealing with doctrinal problems in Rome, the Jesuits are also facing life-threatening new trouble in mainland China. Without any official announcement, the government has reportedly arrested at least four Jesuit priests in Shanghai, along with several Roman Catholic laymen. The most prominent of those rounded up in the crackdown is Father Zhu Hongshen (known to Westerners as Vincent Chu), 65, who was released from prison in 1979 after serving 23 years. Church sources in Hong Kong say that the Communist regime has charged him with giving false information to his numerous foreign visitors and with following orders from...