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...everyone was cheering. Even as Spinola was announcing Lisbon's new policy, the liner Infante Dom Henrique pulled out of Lourengo Marques with 1,100 tearful whites and their personal possessions. Airlines flying from Mozambique to Portugal were reported booked up until October. Those who have fled, either because they feared the uncertainties of the months ahead or retribution from a new black government, still represent less than 1% of the white population. But to many onlookers, the sailing of the Dom Henrique seemed a historic Portuguese retreat. Observed Joaquim Peres, a white businessman who will stay...
British literary intelligentsia, Malcolm Muggeridge once said, may generally be viewed as "priests and religious manques. The Rev. Stephen Spender, Father [Cyril] Connolly, Dom Graham Greene, Sister Brigid Brophy." To this list should be added Muggeridge himself: the Prophet Malcolm...
Human World. It is on such trips abroad-three or four a year-that Dom Helder now pins many of his hopes, since in Brazil, he concedes, "we are crushed." At times he has used his foreign platforms for stinging denunciations of terror and torture in Brazil; more often he tries to prick the conscience of the First World for its complicity in the Third World's troubles. He had prepared a biting acceptance speech-not knowing there would be no time to deliver it-for the Harvard commencement. In it he assailed, among other things, "the greed...
...certain grace seems to touch the life of the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Dom Helder Pessoa Cãmara. Better known to the world simply as "Dom Helder," Brazil's famed voice of the poor and preacher of nonviolent revolution is a persistent nettle in the breeches of his country's military regime. At least eight of Dom Helder's associates have been arrested and tortured. He has been castigated as a "Fidel Castro in cassock" and disdainfully dubbed "the Red bishop." Lately he has been so judiciously ignored by Brazil...
...Dom Helder (the dom is an old Portuguese title of respect) was born 65 years ago in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza in the back room of a schoolhouse where his mother taught the primary grades. His father, an anticlerical journalist, chose the boy's name from a dictionary rather than the calendar of saints but did not keep his son from studying for the priesthood. Ordained at 22, Father Camara soon moved into religious education-and flirted briefly with the Brazilian version of fascism before moving...