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...shifted his activities toward urban shelter issues and peace activities, concerns which led him to volunteer at a Catholic Worker soup kitchen in the south End and take a half-time draft counseling job at the Pax Christi Center on Conscience and War. "I think the values that led me, partly against my grain, to take some stand against abortion are the same values that led me to say there's something wrong with the city when its supposed development depends on forcing poor people into the streets," he explains. "And there's something wrong with deciding that our national...
...president of Pax Romana, the International Movement of Catholic Lawyers, Pettiti once headed a team that investigated cases of torture by the Shah's security forces. Although he later became friends with President Banisadr and other Iranian exiles in France, Pettiti is known for his evenhandedness. Says one colleague: "He has the kind of impartiality that would allow him to begin his service on this commission without knowing today what conclusion he will reach tomorrow...
...explained that Stone's victory came in spite of "a major faux pax on her last dive," although he added that Holy's reverse dive "was the best dive of the entire finals...
...Afghanistan, unlike Iran and Nicaragua, was never really "ours" to lose. The British raj stopped at the Afghan border, and so did the post-World War II Pax Americana. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped set up what became known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) as part of a global network of anti-Soviet alliances. In effect, Dulles was drawing a line in the dust that the Soviets dared not step across lest they incur the thermonuclear wrath of the West. That line ran along the northern frontiers of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, which were all members of CENTO...
...other Communist countries, the state maintains a strict monopoly on publishing and paper supplies. Last November the bishops had to plead for paper for catechism texts, prayer books and church documents. The Pax Movement has its own daily newspaper, but the hierarchy is not able to publish periodicals. The independent Catholic press is led by the respected Tygodnik Powszechny (General Weekly), produced by John Paul's friend Lay Editor Jerzy Turowicz. The pa per is artificially limited to eight pages an issue and a circulation of 40,000. Editor Turowicz routinely prepares twice as much copy as he needs...