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...politicians last week, but the most populous (7.5 million) of the closely related quintet of countries is faced with a rising rebellion of dedicated guerrillas. In Nicaragua (pop. 2.5 million), the Sandinista guerrillas took power in 1979 and, despite their early vows to encourage "pluralism," have been moving zealously leftward ever since. Honduras (pop. 3.9 million) has a moderate government, but is fearful that it will catch the virus of rebellion from its neighbors. Even Costa Rica (pop. 2.3 million), a stable democracy, fears that its economic problems will cause social unrest that could lead to trouble...
...eloquent member of a troika of progessive German theological experts (with Karl Rahner and Hans Küng). In that era the reform-minded priest called the office he will now head "detrimental to the faith." By the 1970s, however, he gradually came to question the church's leftward drift. He warned against accepting "tenets merely because they happen to be fashionable at the moment." In 1975 he called the previous decade "a period of ecclesiastical decadence in which the people who had started it later on became incapable of stopping the avalanche." After Ratzinger was appointed Archbishop...
...Irish pols were running the city, formed the CCA in the 1940s, and for a long time the organization was dominated by a sort of Yankee Republicanism, distinguished by a distaste for corruption and a desire for efficiency. With the turbulence of the Vietnam era, that changed. The swing leftward on national issues among the well-to-do, especially the academic well-to-do, translated on the local level into support for rent control and other programs designed to aid the poor. All of a sudden, having a diverse city was as important as a clean city or an efficiently...
...challenge of the extremists, under Benn's leadership, that had rapidly gained momentum since the party was turned out of power in May 1979. The Bennites want Britain to scrap its nuclear arms, pull out of NATO and nationalize banks and insurance companies. In February, rebelling against the leftward tilt of the party, some of Labor's top leaders bolted to form the Social Democratic Party, which has gained in popularity so rapidly that it has topped both the Labor and Tory parties in recent polls...
Harvard students, especially freshmen lured by the free issue and as yet unaware of the Crimson's leftward leanings, deserve less of these biased editorials which merely mouth liberal slogans and make no contribution to intelligent appraisals of issues. I have yet to see the Crimson as the source of any fresh approaches to Gay Rights...