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...Marxist revolution stopped for Easter weekend, then Easter Monday, then went back to work just long enough for another national one-day holiday to watch a cricket test match before taking the weekend off. That was after Grenada declared a "national alert," announcing that a U.S. invasion was imminent. But while U.S. ships were supposed to be unloading counterrevolutionaries onto the beaches, the People's Revolutionary Government was still encouraging neighboring Trinidad's yachtsmen to hold their annual regatta there. When the Trinidadians asked, naturally enough, if their boats might not run into the U.S. Marines, they were...
Though most of the sanctuary congregations are Protestant, Milwaukee's Roman Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland last month opened archdiocesan property to the refugees and on Easter weekend personally baptized, in Spanish, two children of the seven Salvadorans. Says Weakland: "Sanctuary is not really a way of avoiding justice, but a holy respite so that true justice can eventually be done." But three other Catholic prelates, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago and Archbishops John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis and James Hickey of Washington, have criticized the movement, arguing that Catholics should aid refugees through legal means and lobby...
...magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers at an Easter Service to take psilocybin (and its more potent relative LSD). They reported nearly everyone had had ecstatic experiences which put them in touch with the marvelous powers of the mind, with God, and with a whole new way of living more joyfully and meaningfully. Be cause of the strong value Harvard places...
...inhabitants of the rugged village of Santiago de Lucanamarca were preparing to celebrate Easter Sunday with music and drink. But all of a sudden about 30 masked men, brandishing axes and hatchets, swarmed into the dusty Andean settlement, setting fire to the municipal hall and pillaging local shops. As the terrified residents scrambled for cover, the intruders rounded up scores of villagers, including wizened old women and barefoot children, and proceeded to stone, hack and shoot many of them to death. After less than two hours, the attackers vanished back into the hills, leaving at least 66 corpses in their...
Such hoary superstitions do not seem to interest Belaúnde. The President wrote off the Easter massacre as "an insanity perpetrated by people who are psychologically unhinged." Although he has deployed his troops, Belaunde will need a more detailed and determined policy if he is to save Andean villagers from their ruthless oppressors...