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...Brazil, the world's largest and most populous (131 million) Roman Catholic country. Nonetheless, the debate over the propriety of that support continues to rage within the Brazilian hierarchy. Eugenio Cardinal de Araujo Sales, the conservative Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, charges that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of the pastors and the faithful...
What is more, the feud is not simply a personal one. For months, Shultz and Weinberger have been giving Reagan conflicting advice on some of the gravest issues of U.S. policy. Lately they have been carrying on what amounts to a public debate...
...exaggerations, oversimplifications and outright misstatements on both sides deserve greater attention. Some of the errors might make a concerned voter shudder, since they involve the gravest issues of national policy. A partial list, beginning with the President, whose mistakes were the more numerous...
Faced with one of the gravest challenges in his 19-year rule, Marcos, ever the adroit tactician, moved quickly to cut his losses. He began by treating Agrava's minority report as if it were the only finding of the board and promptly turned the milder version over to the Ministry of Justice. Then, seizing the moment between the announcements of the two reports, Marcos appeared on television to address the country. He urged that the case be settled "without letting a day pass." Already the seven men implicated by Agrava had, he explained, been suspended from duty...
...might, Woodward has yet to show us the end. While uncovering what may be remembered as one of America's gravest political crises, Woodward and his investigative-reporting-as-war style of journalism seemed appropriate enough for helping drive Nixon from the White House. Applied as it is now, it takes on a new macabre element. In his own race through journalism, he has racked up enough points for the wrecked lives in his wake, but he's yet to fully explain just where he is going. It will remain for some more imaginative journalist than Woodward to define just...