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...State Department reacted angrily. The U.S., it said, "can find no reasonable basis" for the court's decision. "We do not consider the matter closed." Meanwhile, the violence goes on: the mutilated body of the Rev. Ernesto Fernández Espino, 37, a leader of El Salvador's Lutheran Church, was found last week in a village near San Miguel...
...however, named in a competing report issued by the four other members of the Agrava panel. The day after the chairman presented her document to the public, her male colleagues-Amado Dizon, Luciano Salazar, Ernesto Herrera and Dante Santos-visited Marcos to give him a copy of their version. They were coldly received. For an hour they were kept waiting in the dining room of the presidential palace. Then a grim and unsmiling Marcos saw the four "Agravatars," as members of the panel are known, just long enough to bid them a chilly thank-you. He remained seated behind...
...Justices can be removed only by House impeachment and Senate conviction on charges of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." None have been. - Every West European country permits abortion, at least after rape or to save the life of the mother. - Ernesto Miranda was set free in 1966 when the Supreme Court overruled his conviction for rape and kidnaping because he had not been informed of his rights. Miranda was later retried by the state for rape, found guilty and sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in Arizona State Prison. Paroled in 1972, he was stabbed...
Sweating profusely in the Nicaraguan heat on a March day in 1983, Pope John Paul II was forced to demand silence from a crowd of Sandinista hecklers present at an outdoor Mass in Managua. When Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua's Marxist government, knelt to receive the Pope's blessing, John Paul wagged his finger in Cardenal's face and chided him, "You must straighten out your position with the church." These episodes, and his own keen observations during an eight-day-long visit to Central...
...priests, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez (at whom the Pope shook his finger in reproach during his 1983 visit to Nicaragua), struck a compromise with their church superiors in 1981 by agreeing not to say Mass or perform religious functions while holding their government posts...