Word: laying
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...country that is largely free of domestic violence but is reportedly being used as a staging area for U.S.-supported counterrevolutionary attacks against Nicaragua. One of the Honduran church's problems is its serious shortage of priests. During his visit, John Paul is expected to pay tribute to lay leaders, so-called Delegates of the World, who have helped to fill the gap by organizing rural Bible-study groups. The Pope will also make a brief stopover in Belize, where, in a reversal of the trend in Guatemala, Protestants have yielded their longtime superiority in numbers and political influence...
...Thursday, two Republicans, Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa, introduced a bill to cut off all military aid and withdraw U.S. advisers unless the Salvadoran government launched "good faith" negotiations with the guerrillas. The Reagan Administration insists the rebels must lay down their arms before any such talks can begin, a stipulation the rebels have refused to accept. There is no chance that the legislation proposed by Hatfield and Leach will pass. Nonetheless, House Speaker Tip O'Neill predicted that any request for an additional $60 million in military aid to El Salvador would...
...juggling act, usually balancing all sides to a problem and never maintaing that his findings are the truth. But his lucid study convincingly details the major dilemmas that the Soviet Union's new leaders face. Goldman doesn't speculate on what the Russians will do next, but he does lay out their options. And although he makes no policy recommendations for the West, Goldman's analysis of the state of the Soviet Union should serve to make some courses of action more attractive than others...
...ADMINISTRATION protest that the EPA follies are only another vehicle to attack it, soon to be filed away in the morgue of old newspaper stories next to past media scapegoats of the moment like Richard Allen and Ernest Lefevre. That may be true. The Wednesday resignation of Burford may lay this scandal to rest; the attention span of the public is short, and the media will soon latch onto another scandal. But what should not be lost amidst the political furor is the substantive concern that the EPA is--or should be--very important agency, not for political reasons...
...church may have unwittingly encouraged the present civil war. After the Medellin conference, Salvadoran Catholics organized "base communities" that evolved into political cells. In reaction, right-wing vigilantes declared open season on Catholic lay workers and missionaries suspected of leftist activity. A pivotal event was the 1980 assassination in San Salvador of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the government, while he was saying Mass. Romero has become a martyr to the poor and to the rebellious left. John Paul may pray at Romero's tomb in the Metropolitan Cathedral, a gesture fraught with political significance...