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...investigated the theft, Capucci insisted that the money had been returned, and asked them to drop the matter. His behavior seemed particularly strange because he is an archbishop of the Melchite Catholic Church (which is autonomous from but in union with Roman Catholicism, and recognizes the Pope as premier patriarch) and vicar of the 5,000 Arabic-speaking Melchites living in and around Jerusalem...
...Congressman may pick up support among an estimated 40% in the district who are independents. Many Nixon loyalists were mollified and moved by the fact that McClory seemed to search his conscience before his two aye votes. McClory is a respected figure in the district, something of a party patriarch; his impeachment vote surely swayed some pro-Nixon conservatives. "People feel things have to be bad for McClory to vote for impeachment," says State Representative Donald Deuster, adding: "Two-thirds of the party is being quiet. But they're saying, 'It's too bad, but it must...
...evening last week, television viewers in Portugal were watching a live broadcast celebrating the nation's recently won-and increasingly unruly -freedom. Suddenly, in the midst of a skit in which an actor impersonating the former Catholic patriarch of Lisbon was blessing the old secret police, the screen went blank. A few minutes later, a woman announcer appeared to say that a representative of the junta had ordered the program off the air. Four days earlier, in the small hours of the morning, plain-clothes police had knocked on the door of José Luis Saldanha Sanches...
Died. Ahmed Messali Hadj, 76, patriarch of the Algerian nationalist movement; in Paris. Tireless and magnetic, Messali began assailing French colonialism in the 1920s, spent years in jail and under house arrest, and saw himself as the Gandhi of North Africa. But when the struggle for Algerian independence intensified in the 1950s, he was regarded as an ineffectual anachronism by the militant F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Ignored by the Algerian government after independence, Messali lived out his years an exile in France...
...brought out in paperback two volumes of short stories that originally appeared in magazines and academic reviews over the last decade. In these books, Garcia is working in a small world between epics--en route from One Hundred Years of Solitude to his next book, The Fall of the Patriarch. But the stories that make up Leaf Storm and No One Writes to the Colonel shouldn't be mistaken for out-takes or early sketches for either of the larger books. They explore some of the paths that Garcia couldn't follow up in One Hundred Years of Solitude. That...