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...Russian Orthodox Church. He displayed his conservative, stand-fast views before the election in a newspaper interview, contending that "it's naive to expect revolutionary changes in the church in comparison to those which took place after the election of Gorbachev." Moreover, notes Jane Ellis of England's Keston College, Filaret's election would have sent "the strongest possible anti-Catholic signal to the Vatican" just six months after Gorbachev visited the Pope. The Kiev prelate's hostility to Rome has greatly complicated the bitter fight in the western Ukraine over Catholics' seizing churches that Stalin handed to the Orthodox...
England's Keston College, a research center on Christianity under Communism, reports that 30,000 of the estimated 150,000 Soviet Pentecostalists are seeking to emulate 255,000 Soviet Jews and emigrate. Supporters of the seven claim the State Deparment has been lax in pressing the Soviets, which State denies. U.S. diplomats have tried to talk them into leaving the embassy as the only way to get an exit visa. Meanwhile, the State Deparment objects to a bill by Michingan Senator Carl Levin, co sponsored by 64 other Senators, to improve the seven's circumstances by giving them...
...hardest. Merrill Butler, president of the NAHB, estimated that nationwide unemployment in the industry could jump to 15% by October. St. Louis builders are predicting that local industry unemployment will rise to 80%; in some areas, like Chicago, more than 50% of all firms could go bankrupt. Says Michael Keston, president of a California-based construction company: "Builders have crawled into their shells like turtles...
Alexander Tomsky, an émigré from Czechoslovakia who monitors East European church life at Britain's Keston College, expects that within Poland "nominal Catholics are going to be unwilling to make the small daily compromises to keep the party and the system satisfied." Beyond Poland, Tomsky thinks that the arrival of John Paul occurs "at a time when the Soviet Union is tired ideologically. In this climate, the revival of Polish Catholicity will be exciting to all believers. The Pope has told people in effect, that they should be dissidents." And if the Pope's ecumenical thrust toward Orthodoxy succeeds...
ORSON WELLES I: Keston in The General, Langdon in Saturday Afternoon, and Chaplin in The Rink...