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...Vallely walked off his job, went to the campaign headquarters of anti-war congressional candidate Robert Drinan and asked to be put to work doing "anything." As a type of political handyman for Drinan, he performed every job from poster-hanger to chauffeur, gaining valuable experience in the process...
...liberal legacy is challenged now as never before. We will not allow one minority group now in power to take away all those precious things that Roosevelt brought us 50 years ago," Father Robert F. Drinan, the ADA's president, declared in the convention's opening speech. Sol C. Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, labeled the convention a symbolic renaissance and called for "a new prophet...to restate and renew the faith" on the one hundredth anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. And other speakers--including Parliament member Shirley Williams--joined their voices to his in calling...
...CONVENTION had to represent a stirring success for Drinan and the ADA. People pledged time and contributed money. The crowd was boisterous. Still, when the cheers had subsided in the conference rooms of the National Education Association and all that was left were scattered pamphlets for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and photographs of Senators Paul Tsongas and Gary Hart, one was left with a feeling of emptiness...
...between conservatives and liberals have lately sharpened. The specific issues are familiar: social activism, birth control and the ordination of women. In a general effort to get priests out of politics, John Paul set off shock waves among American Jesuits last May when he kept Massachusetts Democrat Father Robert Drinan from seeking a sixth term in Congress...
Last year Pope John Paul II let it be known that he did not want Roman Catholic priests to play active roles in politics. As a result, U.S. Congressman Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, had to forgo a run for a sixth term. But in Nicaragua, ever since the revolutionary Sandinista regime took office in 1979, four priests have held high government posts, and a dozen others serve as key advisers. The four highly placed priests are Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto, Social Welfare Minister Edgard Parrales, Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, and Fernando Cardenal, director of the Young Sandinistas...