Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guerrilla sympathizers threatened to storm Buenos Aires' Villa Devoto prison unless all political prisoners were pardoned. Cámpora, who had promised conditional amnesty, caved in. About 500 prisoners in ten jails were released. Among them: Carlos Maguid, a guerrilla who in 1970 kidnaped and murdered former President Pedro Aramburu...
...rhapsodizes: "We dance. We ride bicycles. We go out to dinner. We do everything, just everything." In San Pedro, Calif., Regina Shermerhorn, a white-haired grandmother of 57, is exuberant about her 72-year-old companion, William Hanson. When she met him five years ago, "it was as if I were 17 and had never been on a date. I had never turned anybody on in my life, so far as I knew. Now, all of a sudden, it was Christmas. Believe it or not, we fell in love...
...quoted Father Pedro Arrupe, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, as saying "When we send a man to China, he becomes a Chinaman" [April...
...rather who they are or who they should be. Says Father Paul Reinert, now in his 25th year as president of the Jesuits' St. Louis University: "I have been a Jesuit since 1927. Never have I engaged in so much introspection as I have in the past five years." Pedro Arrupe has called another general congregation to meet in Rome in 1974 or 1975, at which Jesuit delegates will decide which directions they want to explore and which they need to turn away from...
...face is thinner than that of the order's founder, but his high, broad forehead and strong nose bear the same Basque imprint. It is an open face, quick to smile. "He is optimistic by disease," says one colleague. But the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe has reason to be optimistic. He is a survivor of a cataclysm next to which the problems of his Jesuits must instantly pale. As rector of a Jesuit novitiate in wartime Japan, he was in Nagatsuka, a suburb of Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb struck. "Arrupe," says a Jesuit associate...