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With a finely honed cynicism worthy of Screwtape, the report's writer even tries to separate the clerical sheep from the goats, offering a "typology of the episcopate." Seventeen members of the hierarchy, including Russian Orthodox Patriarch Pimen, are characterized as "not personally involved in spreading the influence of Orthodoxy among the population" Then there is a second, troublesome stratum of 23, "loyal to our state" but all too intent on expanding church influence. A third, highly doubtful group of 17 is suspected of actually trying to evade the laws on cults...
...Carlos, the patriarch of the family, grew up in Cuba and, as a professor of history at the University of Havana, helped write his country's 1940 constitution. Nearly two decades later he found himself opposing both the corrupt regime of President Fulgencio Batista and the revolution headed by a former student of his named Fidel Castro. After Castro gained power on New Year's Day 1959, Don Carlos, his wife and stepdaughter fled the country and settled in Washington. Uva's boyfriend Jorge left Cuba to join Uva in 1961. That same year, the family moved...
...relatively unknown John Buckley, 61, the eldest brother of William and James, is one of three Buckley business associates cited in the complaint. John has devoted his career to carrying on the enterprises that grew out of the lucrative Venezuelan oil ventures of the family patriarch, William Sr., who died in 1958. Also cited by the SEC were Benjamin Heath, 67, widower of one of the elder Buckley's daughters, and C. Dean Reasoner, a Washington lawyer who had long helped manage the Buckley businesses...
...Tsar, who ruled Russia for 23 years, also served as temporal leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. His killing thus has a special significance for a church that refuses to acknowledge the present Patriarch of Moscow because of his subservience to an atheistic regime responsible for the deaths of as many as 12 million Christians. The murder of the imperial family was "not merely an act of political reprisal," wrote Metropolitan Philaret, the church's New York City-based leader, in a special epistle on the canonization, "but an act principally of the spiritual annihilation of Russian Orthodoxy...
Only a few incumbent candidates seem safe; probably the two safest are named Sullivan. Walter J.--the patriarch of the Independent clan, who has won the most votes in ten straight city elections--will waltz into office with his usual ease. And David Sullivan--who came within 20 votes of Walter's total during the 1979 election, is also but guaranteed a slot, thanks to the solid tenant organization he has built. Most likely they will run at the head of the pack again: Walter is intent on keeping his top-of-the-ticket showing intact, so intent that...