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Leading the local campaign to reform the Passion Play is Hans Schwaighofer, 57, who played Judas in 1960 and heads the local woodcarving school. He has long advocated an abridged version of an older text, first performed in 1750, by Father Ferdinand Rosner, a Benedictine poet. Archconservatives on the village council, which oversees the play, rejected that plan at the time of the 1970 pageant. To meet growing international protests, however, the council toned down some of the most offensive lines. No longer did the High Priest Caiaphas say of Jesus, "It would delight mine eyes to see/ his body...
...organizer of the French company was Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had built the Suez Canal, completed in 1869, and who preferred the Panama site because he believed (incorrectly, as it turned out) that a Suez-style sea-level canal without locks could be built there...
With considerable fanfare, President Ferdinand Marcos began his reforms by releasing 157 of 1,000 prisoners he has promised to let out of the Philippines' military stockades. (Last January Marcos conceded that there were as many as 4,700 military detainees.) He has also promised to phase out the military tribunals created by martial law and to replace them with civil courts. He has ordered the arrest and trial of two military officers accused of torturing Civil Rights Leader Trinidad Herrera, who, after being visited by U.S. diplomats in Manila, was finally released from jail...
...then open to buy up the holdings and rights of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique, a bankrupt French company that had tried-under the guidance of Ferdinand de Lesseps, supervisor of the Suez Canal project-to trench the 50 miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...
...hiding. In the 15th century, Portugal's 200,000 Jews made up one-fifth of the population. Many of them were refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, and they came to play an important role in finance and scholarship. When King Manuel I sought to marry the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, however, Spain's fervently Catholic monarchs told Manuel that he would have to get rid of the Jews in return...