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...spread of Soviet influence on the Horn so distresses Arab leaders that four of them recently convened an extraordinary summit at Ta'iz, in the Yemen Arab Republic. The four included Numeiry and Somalia's Red-lining President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Marxist President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the leader of the Yemen Arab Republic. They set aside differing political views long enough to agree on a pan-Arabic, pro-Moslem program against Ethiopia. Meanwhile neighboring Saudi Arabia, which has been pushing aid to Somalia in hopes of wooing it away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Playing the Horn, Moscow Style | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Congresses, a hulking multimillion dollar marble-and-glass edifice that exemplifies the Soviets' conspicuous striving for modernity. Western Kremlinologists expect few surprises from this congress. According to one feeble joke current in Moscow last week, the delegates will in fact be treated to a performance of Mnogo Shuma iz Nichego, otherwise known as Much Ado About Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Hard Times for Ivan | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

Gutiérrez and many other Latin American liberation theologians journeyed to Detroit last week to argue that their theology has a prophetic role in northern industrial societies. Sounding a recurrent theme, Peruvian Economist Javier Iguiñiz told an opening session at the conference that "the growth of capitalism is the same as the growth of world poverty." Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo, author of one of the movement's key works, A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity, warned that the church, if it is to have any validity, "must become a function of liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesus the Liberator? | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer for a film trade paper. He soon switched to hawking talent, managing comics like Slappy White and Stanley Myron Handelman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Synagogue, S.R.O. | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...Condon's other novels have been bought by H*ll*w**d." It is doubtful that The Ecstasy Business will ever see the dark of a movie theater. On the other hand, five years ago, who would have believed R*ch**d B*rt*n and E*iz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beverly Hills Baroque | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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