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Miller survives "inquisition " to become chairman
Küng's reply is his 394-page Um Nichts Als Die Wahrheit (Nothing But the Truth), published last week by Piper Verlag. The book's full documentation of the dispute attempts to prove that Küng is the victim of an unfair inquisition. In a...
Like a heretic defending himself before the Inquisition, Schorr was summoned to testify before a hostile Congressional investigatory committee, armed with questions tailored to trap him into revealing his source. Schorr withstood the pressures of the committee inquiry, braving threats of prosecution for contempt. He told the committee:
"Why hello there, son," he said, sidling up to the bar with the obvious desire of buttonholing me for a drink. Having read "The Last Hurrah" I was well aware that any defensive maneuver short of armed resistance was useless, so I gave in and ordered a round. My companion...
Public Burnings. Those who converted were designated "New Christians," but they continued to be hounded for 2½ centuries by the Inquisition, installed in 1536, and by zealot neighbors. In one Lisbon riot alone, in 1506, between 2,000 and 4,000 of the New Christians were slaughtered. The auto...