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...demanded that he and his family leave the country. It further proposed-when Somoza is gone-a provisional democratic junta and offered three possible "representatives": Industrialist Alfonso Robelo Callejas, 38, Lawyer-Writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado, 36, and Lawyer Rafael Córdova Rivas, 54, who had helped establish the foremost anti-Somoza political coalition, UDEL (Democratic Liberation Union...
...racial conflict in America's cities. They illustrate how what appears on the surface to be a racial conflict actually goes much deeper and ultimately rests on sharp class divisions in our society today. To understand this, one must know a little about MOVE's ideology. First and foremost, the group opposes technology. Its members reportedly eat only raw meat, rarely take baths, raise rats and dozens of dogs. MOVE members refuse to use modern plumbing. They hate cars, airplanes, consumer markets and anything else that is a product of modern society. Second, MOVE is not proto-typically radical. They...
...foremost chronicler of existentialism has wearied of its lessons; nihilism is "a theatrical nightmare . . . the epidemic of our time." Now 64, Barrett finds him self at once exalted and bewildered by the discovery that freedom lies in the recognition of mortality. His testament to that condition recalls in spirit the fierce, eloquent poems Yeats composed...
Promoting justice. Is the church's foremost role to serve the faith or to work for political and economic justice, or some balance between the two? Only weeks after the new Pope takes charge, that issue will be thrown into sharp focus when the Latin American bishops gather at Pueblo, Mexico. Their meeting may produce a dramatic confrontation between go-it-slow churchmen and a restive "liberation" camp that sees opposition to oppression as a Christian duty. A Pope like Argentina's Eduardo Cardinal Pironio, an architect of the progressive bishops' conference of a decade ago, could encourage major initiatives...
DIED. Carlos Chavez, 79, foremost Mexican composer and conductor; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City, Chavez began by writing folk-tinged compositions (the ballet HP in 1926) and gradually embraced romanticism (Sinfoma Romantica...