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Since his wife's death in Crete, Vandam has struggled manfully to pull himself together and raise his son Billy. He guns a BSA 350 motorcycle through the clotted streets of Cairo and chases his adversary in one memorable scene worthy of a Steve McQueen cop-pursuit flick. He also drinks a lot of gin. Humiliated and frustrated in his confrontations with the Egyptian Nazi sympathizers, he presents Follett's simple but valid editorial: "Yes. We're not very admirable, especially in our colonies, but the Nazis are worse . . . It is worth fighting. In England decency...
...gazes at the noisy crowd outside his room and says in a mild voice, "I am captive of my people's love, their violence and their beliefs." Captive he is, for the Orthodox folk around the town of Kisamos, on the western tip of his native island of Crete, have kidnaped Bishop Eirinaios. For more than two weeks they have held him hostage in an empty room, refusing to free him until the church restores him as their leader...
...spend it on himself. But Eirinaios was one of the few bishops who refused to collaborate with the military junta that took power in Greece in 1967. That stand apparently led to the bishop's downfall. The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, which has some church jurisdiction over Crete, asked the politically troublesome Eirinaios to step aside in 1971. He was sent to West Germany to minister to 350,000 Greeks who migrated north in search of jobs. Soon Eirinaios was riling German authorities by demanding Greek-language schooling for the workers' children...
Back home many of his projects were dying of neglect. His parishioners kept praying for his return. Then in 1979 his former see at Kisamos fell vacant. The bishops of Crete, who, with approval of the Patriarchate, elect their fellow bishops, promised that they would reinstate Eirinaios. But last June they chose another man. Two hours later the people seized the episcopal residence in Kisamos and threatened to demolish the building if anyone but Eirinaios tried to take office...
...instead of trying to solve our social problems, the church is only worried about the blind support of old and uneducated women and how to exploit its vast property, Eirinaios is a hope and a symbol for the future." At week's end the Patriarchate and bishops of Crete worked out a plan to shuffle episcopal assignments so the see of Kisamos eventually can be opened for Eirinaios' return. But street mobs were demanding that he be restored immediately...