Word: paule
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...Exactly one week before Pope John Paul II inaugurated the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III), security troops burst into a retreat center in El Salvador, killed Father Octavio Ortiz Luna and four youths, and arrested the rest. The military government of President General Carlos Humberto Romero said the church house was a guerrilla base. At a Requiem Mass last week, activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, no kin to the Salvadoran dictator and his most outspoken foe, denounced the government accusations as "lies...
Just 14 weeks into his reign, John Paul II might have been tempted to avoid this Latin American entanglement, as his short-lived predecessor had planned to do. But a leader with his vigorous makeup could hardly resist the challenge. "The Pope is coming to save the church. It's as simple as that," says a Mexican church analyst. Catholicism's future depends greatly on this region's believers, many of them "baptized but not yet sufficiently evangelized," as a bishop in Peru puts it. Religious education is often scant. Says a Vatican specialist, "In Latin America...
...major unknown factor is what Pope John Paul will advise the bishops in this week's closed-door meetings. The left fears that this Pope from Poland will favor the "Polish solution," which uses subtle maneuvering more than confrontation with repressive regimes. Remarks one liberal at the Vatican: "The difference is that in Eastern Europe the regimes are atheistic, while in Latin America they are supposedly Catholic. That gives the Holy See a graver responsibility." The mere presence of the new Pontiff at a conference that could well cause him problems is a sure sign that John Paul...
...married in 1921. Five years later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...
DIED. Elvin C. Stakman, 93, pre-eminent plant pathologist who led the war against wheat diseases; in St. Paul. Combating the fungus diseases called rusts, he attached Vaseline-coated slides to plane wings in 1921 and by collecting the parasitic red spores in the air, proved that the disease blew seasonally across the nation. A member of the University of Minnesota faculty (1909-53) and the Rockefeller Foundation, "Stak" increased the world's wheat yields by breeding new, hardier strains as the fungi also continued to evolve. "Find out all you have to buck," he once said, "and then...