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Catholic rumblings against the Smith regime have been heard for at least two years, but only recently has discontent broken through. Last month Bishop Donal Lament of Umtali, head of the Catholic bishops' conference, openly branded those responsible for the race laws "the real terrorists of Rhodesia." When a priest was expelled from the country for his anti-regime views, the outspoken prelate recalled the fate of priests in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. He was chiefly responsible for the pastoral letter, signed by all four Roman Catholic bishops in Rhodesia...
...another reason with his Paul Principle:* "Individuals often become incompetent at a level at which they once performed quite adequately." The executive may feel, rightly or wrongly, that he is undereducated, that he cannot keep up with the complexities of modern business and the talents of younger executives. Typical lament: "I'm too old to learn about this...
...wants his service to scotch its eleven-man bagpipe and drum contingent. The ostensible reason is to save $50,000 a year; some suggest that Mrs. Ryan cringes at the sight of American fighting men in the national costume of a foreign land. Anyway, the pipes that wailed a lament at Jack Kennedy's funeral, welcomed distinguished White House visitors, and enlivened countless county fairs throughout the U.S., are scheduled to sound their own dirge at a final Washington concert this month...
Sober or drunk, most Indians cite the Bureau of Indian Affairs when they lament their troubles. A unit of the Interior Department, it is supposed to help all native Americans under federal jurisdiction to achieve a better life, mainly by offering education and medical care and protecting their land, water and other treaty rights. More often, it suffocates Indians with its all-encompassing paternalistic authority. An Indian must have BIA permission to sell his land; he is taught by BIA teachers, and if he cannot support his children they may be taken from his home by the BIA and placed...
...Note That the Buffalo's Gone is a six-minute, technically stunning lament for the genocide of the American Indian. I don't like elegiac works about Indian peoples by definition: it's too easy to forget their political situation in the present by mourning their past-something on the order of reading your own obituary notice. By running that same notice over and over again American consciences have written the Indian off. And Gershfield's work is of a piece with conventional liberal sentiment; there is the same failure to differentiate between various Indian peoples, the tired old noble...