Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening to the left." Pope John is no friend of Communism, but he hopes somehow to make it possible for the 63 million Catholics behind the Iron Curtain to preserve their freedom of worship. The church, argues one close associate of the Pope's, is not "a dam against Communism. This is an entirely absurd concept. The church should not be against anything. It should be positively for something. When we support only one bloc we alienate half of humanity...
...small town and small congregation, the Gospel of Christ is severely dam aged every time a guy like Wilkes makes his Madison Avenue pronouncements...
...wretchedest slum quarter of Partinico. a pinched little town near Palermo, a man lay starving last week. Friends dropped in to ask "Come va oggi [How are you today]?'' and the man would answer, smiling. "Bene, benissimo.' Over his cot a poster proclaimed: "The Dam Means Wealth, the Dam Means Progress, the Dam Means Confidence...
Sicily's angriest and least violent man, Danilo Dolci, 38, was staging a Gandhi-style fast to dramatize the need for a dam across the lato River, which could irrigate some 25,000 acres of parched, stingy land in the northwest. The government assigned funds for the dam two years ago. but, Dolci laments, "Not one stone 'has been turned." Danilo and the government had counted without Sicily's most implacable foe of progress: the Mafia...
Violently resisting any step that might loosen their feudal hold on the pinched and primitive peasantry, Mafia bullyboys scared off government engineers with threats and gunfire, sabotaged machinery for the dam. Landowners, whose fields would be submerged by the backed-up water, turned down the government's offer of $840 per acre, asked $3,600 instead -presumably on Mafia orders...