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...Toes. With the resignation of President Edward Ochab, who is 61 and nearly blind, Gomulka had sufficient strength in the Polish Sejm (Parliament) to have the post filled by a trusted lieutenant, Defense Minister Marian Spychalski, 62. The political fortunes of Spychalski, an architect by training, have waned and gained for 25 years with those of Gomulka. An underground Communist leader during World War II, he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Stalinists after Gomulka was purged in 1948. Never brought to trial, Spychalski left prison a cripple without toes, was made Defense Minister after Gomulka gained power...
...most pleasantly surprised at the fair treatment you gave Sister Marian Peter, my brother and myself in the article "Priestly Rebels" [Feb. 2]. However, you made it sound like our decision was a reaction to "tough government measures" of a few days' duration. It was not. It was our response to a permanent situation of violence to human nature that can be seen in any set of statistics on Guatemala giving the infant-mortality rate, life expectancy, literacy, average income, distribution of the land, etc. You say we have broken the rule of noninterference in political affairs...
...Sister Marian Peter and I have been married. We could have gotten permission from Rome, but decided not to. We want the church to know that it is time that her hierarchy begin preaching and living the Gospel of Christ's love for all mankind, and forget their frantic defense of a legalistic system that has only served to alienate the clergy from the poor...
During last year's outbreak of left-wing terrorism (TIME, Jan. 26), Sister Marian's students were appalled by the tough government measures taken to put down the uprising, decided on religious grounds to side with the rebels. So did the nun and her two priest friends, who met one day in November with a guerrilla leader in the village of Escuintla. When the Maryknoll superior in Guatemala, Father John M. Breen, heard of the meeting, he ordered the missionaries to stay out of politics or return to the order's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y. Instead, Sister...
...Maryknoll fathers suspended the Melvilles from their right to say Mass or hear confessions. More fortunate was the Melvilles' close friend, Father Blase Bonpane, 38, whose house in Guatemala City they frequently used for meetings with Sister Marian and her students. Threatened with a similar suspension, he returned home for reassignment to Hawaii, but he remains sympathetic to the rebel cause. "No one wants violence," he says, "but when 2% of the people own 80% of the arable land, and a right-wing army shoots reformers on the spot as so-called Communists, then violence is already institutionalized...