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...staff executive. López Trujillo is a firm, shrewd anti-Marxist who once declared, "I don't believe that in Latin America Marxism has any possibilities. Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind." He is a foe of liberation theology and apparently had a hand in an important critique of it that was released in 1977 by the International Theological Commission, a blue-ribbon group of scholars that advises the Pope. "Christians do not persuade the masses to destroy violence by counterviolence," said the theologians, nor, they added, should they identify the church with...
...hierarchies in their own countries. As a result, Brazil's 37 votes will be largely progressive. Moderates and conservatives predominate in the important delegations from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The best-known liberation theologian, Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, will be on hand as adviser to Ecuador's "Red Bishop," Leonidas Proaño Villalba. But El Salvador's Archbishop Romero, a hero to the poor, was not elected by his conservative colleagues and will attend only as a member of a papal commission. The bishops of impoverished Guatemala appointed the head...
Norman Mailer's right hand doesn't always know what his famous left is doing. The truculent author of The Armies of the Night appeared in a Barnstable, Mass., courtroom last week to haggle over finances in the divorce proceedings brought against him by his fourth wife, Beverly. Mailer couldn't explain how he had frittered away several hundred thousand dollars. "My talent is to make money, not to manage it," he said. Beverly, who is asking for $1,000 a week alimony, has her own quirks, such as her temper. "We had 26 maids...
When politics seems to have no rhyme or reason, George Ball, former Under Secretary of State, and recently special consultant to the National Security Council, tries his hand at poetry. Sample lyrics from Pious Thoughts for the Christmas Season, a collection of eight poems sent to family and friends...
...poll, to be released next week, offers solace for both sides in the running war. Five percent of all sedentary Americans declare they will desert to the enemy and take up jogging during 1979. On the other hand, Harris finds that the jogging craze-and growth of interest in all forms of physical exercise-is slowing down. "Involvement will continue to increase," says Harris, "but less rapidly than it has in the past...