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...hand clutched the decapitated body of a Barbie-like doll. In the cellophane-Easter-grass-filled lunchbox lay the head of the doll. Around the base, toy soldiers battled a never-ending...
Tension between the church and the government surfaced in March 1983 when Sandinista groups shouted down the Pope as he spoke at a meeting in Managua. Last Easter Sunday, Nicaragua's nine bishops issued a pastoral letter that strongly urged the government to open a direct dialogue with the contras and opposition leaders. The Sandinistas are now apparently trying to link the bishops to the contras in the hope of diffusing the impact of what the government fears will be a church-supported boycott of elections...
...billion foreign debt and a 1983 trade deficit of $460 million, the government in Santo Domingo was negotiating the second stage of a three-year program of loans totaling about $400 million. Unwisely, it put into effect many of the fund's prescriptions without warning. Over Easter weekend, it shifted the exchange rate on all imports (except petroleum) from one peso per dollar to a free-market rate of 2.5 per dollar. When Dominicans woke up Monday morning, they discovered that many prices had more than doubled. They reacted in a collective rage, and the government had to call...
...Gainesville, Ga., announced to her mother at breakfast one day that she wanted to be part of the Olympics. After Mrs. Nix persuaded AT&T to waive its requirement that runners be ten years old or older, she and her daughter set about raising the money. "We baked Easter cakes, Mother's Day cakes, pound cakes and sheet cakes," Nancy's mother recalls. Nancy made some of her own crafts and set about selling them to her neighbors. When her turn came, she took off so fast that she passed up the press truck...
...presence at Opus ordinations is only one of many signs of his approval. The Pope's first formal audience in 1984 was with Del Portillo, 70, the prelate of Opus. John Paul's first pastoral visit this year was to an Opus center in Rome. Each Easter evening since his election, the Pope has relaxed by having Opus students drop by to sing songs and read their poems. He has encouraged Opus members to such special tasks as maintaining discreet contact with Catholics in Communist lands and opening a new evangelistic center in Protestant Sweden...