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...most impassioned messages to those assembled dealt with the basic world hunger for bread. In the Civic Center auditorium, Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe said that if each U.S. Catholic fasted for one meal a week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal...
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...Russians' favor); but Chris Taylor is nothing compared to America's greatest Wrestlers. He hasn't even been able to break into the top ten contenders list for the west coast, which is the easiest of all the professional wrestling conferences. The likes of Man Mountain Mike or Pedro Morales could easily win the Olympic wrestling medal--or any other Olympic medal, for that matter! It is a fair bet, in my opinion, that a dozen or so big time wrestlers could win the World Series, the Super Bowl, or any of the other titles in those other boring, unrealistic...
...well. The prompt campaign of telegrams may well have saved their lives. Antonio Misetich, an MIT-affiliated Argentine scientist, was arrested on April 19 (Globe 5/5/76) by army security forces. Others who have been arrested include Osvaldo Sunkeld and Marta Zabaleta, both economists, and Harolda Conti, a writer. Pedro Paz, an economist, has also disappeared. (But recent reports from Argentina suggest that Paz and Sunkeld have been allowed to go into exile as a result of U.N. pressure...
...community school board decided to rechristen the school, which bore the name of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. As a three-term mayor, the "Little Flower" championed city dwellers of every race and creed. But no matter; he was Italian, not Hispanic. The board thereupon chose the name of Pedro Albizu Campos, who before his death in 1965 proved his "unselfish devotion," in the board's words, "to the cause of liberation of Puerto Rico from the yoke of American colonialism...