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...Brazil's progressive bishops and clergy were delighted by the Pope's bridge-building gestures toward them. In Recife, John Paul warmly-and publicly-embraced Archbishop Hélder Cámara, 71, detested by the conservative military regime for his advocacy of peasant rights; Dom Hélder had not been seen on Brazilian television in eight years. In Salvador, the Pope issued a blunt warning to Latin America's rulers: "The realization of justice in this continent presents a clear dilemma: either it will be done through profound and courageous reform, according to principles that...
...recent article in Foreign Affairs, Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes from his exile in Vermont how a peasant family in the middle of Russia wants simply to be left alone: "If only the petty local Communist despot would somehow quit his uncontrolled tyranny, if only they could get enough to eat for once, and buy shoes for the children, and lay in enough fuel for the winter, if only they could have sufficient space to live even two to a room...
Several other leftist groups are united in their staunch opposition to the government. They include the People's Fedayan, a Marxist guerrilla organization; Peykar, a Marxist offshoot of the Mujahidin; and the KUMOLEH, a largely peasant-supported party...
...journey to Damascus. He spent his working life in France, but he remained a Spaniard to his elegant fingertips. His piercing, unblinking deep-chestnut eyes spoke of the Spanish soul's passion. Even after he began to prosper, he was content to dress and live like a Spanish peasant, eating beans and drinking coarse red wine, in loud cafes and private rooms of indescribable clutter. And though it was in France that he found fame and fortune, he remained curiously indifferent to that nation's life struggles in two world wars and a depression. To the outside world...
...coercive power. Forty-five years deeper into the 20th century, it would have been easy to romanticize the simple, patient people exemplifying that point. Rosi does not do it. He draws them with full dimensionality, verve and gentle irony. And with a sympathy that never veers into noble-peasant sentimentality. In this cut, Levi's story seems to rush rather suddenly to a conclusion, but even so it is well worth attending...