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...dashiki-clad radical, King, 55, recently adopted a sober tone and somber attire. Nevertheless, he let slip a few atavistic faux pas, such as saying that he preferred Fidel Castro to Ronald Reagan. More damaging in this heavily Catholic city, he implied, without offering evidence, that the late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros was antiSemitic...
Speaking again before a Jewish group, King said that an anti-abortion letter released by the much beloved late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros "reflected anti-Semitism" because Rep. Barney Frank '61, who is Jewish, was considered the butt of the cardinal's criticism. But Frank told The Globe that King must have gotten the issue "mixed up" with something else. King was forced to "clarify" and then, finally, apologized for a remark that unjustly criticized one of the Roman Catholic community's most popular public figures...
...Humberto Belli...
...They also say that Nicaraguan assistance for the rebels in El Salvador, which the U.S. has found difficult to prove publicly, has diminished in recent months because the Sandinistas are too busy at home to meddle in their neighbors' affairs. But the gambit is risky. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned last week that if the contras step up their attacks, Sandinista forces would pursue them to the border areas of Honduras and Costa Rica. If so, the "covert" war could become even more overt than it already...
...DIED. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, 67, theologically conservative leader of Boston's archdiocese, the nation's third largest; of heart failure; in Boston. Ordained in 1946, he became bishop of Brownsville, Texas, in 1966 and succeeded Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing in 1970. "A gentle, compassionate man," in the words of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, he caused a stir in 1980 by opposing pro-abortion candidates...