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...days get warmer. On May 14, Mexican Eusebio de Haro, 22, was shot in the groin and left bleeding to death after he and a companion approached a rancher near Bracketville, Texas, pleading for a drink of water. Near the Arizona border town of Sasabe, Miguel Angel Palafox, 20, had eluded the border patrol on May 21 and was heading north through hills covered with saguaro cactus--his dream was to reach Phoenix--when he was spotted by two horsemen dressed in black.One of them pulled out a rifle and shot Palafox in the neck. The youth wrapped his shirt...
Behind the gray stone walls of Palafox Seminary in Puebla, Mexico, 184 bishops of the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III) spent 18 days weighing words like poker chips in a high-risk game. At stake was the future of 300 million Roman Catholics, across a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Would the bishops be swayed by the progressives in their midst and come out in favor of church activism for the coming decades? Or would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged...
...chapel of the Palafox Seminary, before an audience of bishops, 6,500 miles from St. Peter's, John Paul delivered a 5,000-word speech that may mark the entire course of his papacy. The text was designed to strip away any ambiguity over future papal social policy. From Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) to John XXIII's Mater et Magistra (1961), papal encyclicals have rejected both the "unregulated competition" of laissez-faire capitalism and Marxism's class struggle with its elimination of private property. However, in his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, Paul VI allowed...
...days later, Ashe did it again-this time at the expense of Mexico's Antonio Palafox, 29. He aced the Mexican twelve times, winning one game on four consecutive perfect serves. Fittingly, Ashe's 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Palafox clinched the zone championship for the U.S. "It was his booming serve," lamented Palafox. "I tried to break his concentration, but I couldn...
...world's-best tennis amateur. McKinley followed up Wimbledon with a slamming defense of his national clay courts championship, an off-form loss to Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the American Zone semifinal Davis Cup matches, and a quick comeback win over Osuna's partner, Antonio Palafox...