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Almost all of the Harvard representatives have returned to the University from Central America voicing opposition to the Administration's policy of providing money and training to the "contras," who seek to overthrow the five-year-old Sandinista regime...
Turning more specifically to abortion, the Governor contended that people who favor legalized abortion "aren't a ruthless, callous alliance of anti-Christians determined to overthrow our moral standards." Among them, he noted, are the American Lutheran Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and women of the Episcopal Church and of B'nai B'rith. In view of the widespread opposition to an all-out ban on abortion, Cuomo noted, even the bishops had decided in 1981 that it was futile to seek such a constitutional ban. Instead, they endorsed the Hatch...
...some 100 deaths in January, he blamed much of the unrest on Muslim fundamentalist groups. The police stepped up surveillance in mosques and tightened religious censorship; Hassan imprisoned as many as 1,000 suspected agitators. Just two months ago, 13 of the 71 activists accused of conspiring to overthrow the King were sentenced to death...
...bishop was jailed by Mugabe for "subversive activities" after returning from a visit to Israel and declaring that oppression in Zimbabwe was greater than it had been under white minority rule. The strongly anti-Zionist Mugabe promptly accused Muzorewa of trying to overthrow the government. The bishop is now free to resume political activities and is expected to campaign in next year's general election. But he has been warned of a condition to his freedom: no more mixing politics with religion...
...Minister during the transition from white to black rule and who has been detained without charges since November. Nkomo, whose guerrillas joined forces with Mugabe's during the struggle for black majority rule, was booted out of Zimbabwe's coalition Cabinet in 1982 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. "Any coercion leading to the one-party state is digging a grave for Zimbabwe and will lead to disaster," Nkomo said last month. Smith, whose Conservative Alliance holds seven of the 20 seats reserved for whites in the 100-seat House of Assembly, charged that one-party rule...