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Selfish and Callous. At a press conference, Giants' President Wellington Mara piously insisted that he was moving to New Jersey only to provide Giant fans with a better place to watch the team play. Clearly, though, a main motive was money. The Mara family has run the Giants on a shoestring since Wellington's father Tim bought the New York franchise in 1925 for a piddling $500. Said Tim at the time: "A New York franchise in anything is worth that much, including one for shining shoes." It certainly was. Though the football Giants were subtenants all their...
...beat the tax man). With the Jets' Joe Namath hospitalized by a knee injury, it appeared for a while that pro football fans in New York would have no first-string quarterback playing for them this fall. A meeting between Tarkenton and Giants President Wellington Mara clarified matters. Tarkenton would receive a salary reported to be $125,000, but no loan-period. A contrite Fran promised to be good. "I'm very, very sorry," he said of his brief delinquency. "It was a hasty move...
...Vatican aide cited approvingly both the U.S. activities of the Berrigan brothers (provided they did not resort to violent methods) and the widespread campaign to improve living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested...
...many protests abroad. Early this year the Vatican declared: "We must deplore those cases of police torture of which there has been so much talk." Most of Brazil's 245 bishops recently signed a petition demanding that the government "investigate the problem in depth." Archbishop Helder Cāmara of Recife and Olinda has been particularly outspoken. "In all conscience, I shall talk openly about torture in Brazil," he told French audiences last May. "I would be a criminal...
Marxist Priests. For months, Rome has heard similar reports. After surveying Brazil's 245 bishops, a special Vatican envoy found that only 15 firmly support the military regime, while 40 have joined Archbishop Câmara in publicly opposing the government; most of the other 190 lean toward the left. Some bishops are heeding the growing number of rebel priests who insist that Catholicism can transform society-and save its soul-only by embracing revolution, even a Marxist variety. "We expected revolutionary movement, but never anticipated that it would build up to such intensity at the very heart...