Word: munoz
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Jesus as Communist. The bishops of Colombia hold to a staunch conservative line. Bogota's Anibal Cardinal Munoz Duque accepted the title of army brigadier general and suspended 100 priests and nuns who backed striking bank workers. Colombian priests, however, are increasingly activist; 500 of them recently sent a petition to the Vatican charging that their bishops were "allied with the exploiter against the exploited." On the radical left, Father Saturnino Sepulveda, a leader of the Marxistoriented Priests for Latin America, declares: "I see Jesus Christ as the secretary general of the first ever Communist Party...
...through," recalls Charles Simpson, a second year law student who served as Spiro's partner in the Law School's 1974-75 Ames competition. Having gone through the Ames once before, Spiro didn't worry much, and the pair got by without great effort. George Munoz, a member of Pavlovich's small study group, remembers telling Spiro he had "better get on the ball or get out of the group." Pavlovich was bright, but friends say he didn't seem to work very hard and he missed a lot of classes. When he did make it to school...
Then cross-country again, still on foot. "The one thing that stayed in my mind was my mother," says Munoz. "and when I was in a depressed mood, I would ask myself, would I ever see my mother again...
...took nearly two months for Munoz to cover the 1,200 miles from Yucatan to Matamoros, just across the Rio Grande from the southern tip of Texas. There, he telephoned his sister Elvia, 19, a senior at Harlingen High School, and Elvia called her mother, Mrs. Ovidea Munoz, 53, a cleaning woman with six children. Mrs. Munoz snatched up Amando's baptismal certificate, got a ride in a friend's old car, and barreled off to the border to retrieve her son. "Don't cry, Mama, I'm back," said Amando. "Let me cry," said...
...Munoz now has a lawyer and is suing the Immigration Service for $25,000 in damages. He has also given up his wanderings and is working on a local farm. "I'm staying close to Harlingen," he says, "where everybody knows...