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...That modern-age anomaly is the crux of a dispute between the National Audubon Society and Louisiana's Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild Life. Arguing that a surplus of alligators was eating up such income-producing wildlife as muskrats and waterfowl, Louisiana reopened the swamplands in Cameron Parish to hunters last fall after an eight-year ban. In 13 days, 1,347 alligator hides were turned over to state authorities to be auctioned off to private businessmen. The Audubon Society, which long ago branched out from birds to the protection of all animals, promptly declared open season...
...seems that they are. Apart from their shared religious identity and their common appendage?S.J., for the Society of Jesus?they are a bewilderingly diverse fraternity. They are seismologists, swamis, architects and engineers, theologians and winemakers, politicians, lawyers, social workers, astronomers, revolutionaries, economists?as well as missionaries, teachers and parish priests. The dictionary lists the adjective Jesuitical as a condemnation?"given to intrigue or equivocation"?but the title of Jesuit also carries the tradition of their aggressive brilliance...
...Diego, Calif., an inner-city Jesuit parish called Christ the King became the focus of disputes with the local bishop when the Jesuits assigned there twice offered the church as sanctuary to sailors who refused to board Viet Nam-bound vessels...
...mission parish in the western Honshu city of Yamaguchi, Arrupe became an aggressive Japanophile. So well did he learn the language (one of the seven he speakes) tht he went on to write eight books in it. He also wrote haiku, studied caligraphy, practiced the tea ceremony. Once he advertised a "great concert at the church. The musicians proved to be three Jesuits, one of them Arrupe. He still likes to sing Spanish songs at the top of his lungs in a deep bass...
...world is Evangelist Billy Graham's parish. At his insistence the South African government temporarily abrogated its apartheid laws in order to let blacks and whites mix at an international conference in Durban on mission and evangelism. In his keynote address to the 1,500 delegates and observers, Graham last week described the gathering as a watershed: "You will never be the same. South Africa will never be the same." Later, before a Johannesburg rally for 80,000, the sometime White House preacher let off some steam about crime and punishment back home...