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...current conflict has been building ever since the Second Vatican Council, when some Jesuits began busying themselves in social action and in questioning papal teachings. In 1973 a harried Pope Paul VI wrote Superior General Pedro Arrupe to "express our desire, indeed our demand," that the Jesuits remain loyal to the papacy. In 1979 Pope John Paul II directed Arrupe to wipe out secularism and other "regrettable shortcomings...
...next day, Jerry Reuss outdueled Ron Guidry, 2-1; the Dodgers led, three games to two. "Their catcher beat our catcher; their pitcher beat our pitcher," Steinbrenner carped. The Dodger catcher, Steve Yeager, hit the winning home run in the seventh inning, right after Pedro Guerrero had homered to tie. Meanwhile, Yankee Catcher Rick Cerone looked overeager to his boss. "Cerone took us out of two innings first-ball hitting," fumed George, "and everyone knows Guidry's ERA in the last three innings this season is over 10." Still, with Guidry steaming along on a two-hitter, would Steinbrenner...
...bunted over to second, after an earlier single, and scored the winning run when Ron Cey, who had been hit in the head by Rich Gossage's 94-mile-per-hour fastball on Sunday, stroked a two-out single. Dusty Baker followed with a base hit to right, and Pedro Guerrero tripled to left field to give the Dodgers a 4-1 lead...
...Prensa is the only Nicaraguan newspaper not aligned with the government, which also controls 80% of the radio and TV stations. As it chronicled the revolution's mounting failures, the daily, now edited by Chamorro's son, Pedro Joaquín Jr., 30, once more found itself the principal target of a regime that does not tolerate dissent. Chamorro's widow Violeta, an original member of the revolutionary government, resigned in March 1980, offering reasons of health, to concentrate on helping her son with the paper. One month later, La Prensa was paralyzed by a Sandinista-induced...
...Shutting down La Prensa," he said, "would be like killing Pedro Joaquín Chamorro all over again...