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Berrigan says he last directly communicated with Pedro Arupe, the Jesuit Superior-General, while in a Washington D.C. jail last spring awaiting prosecution for digging a grave on the White House lawn in protest of U.S. nuclear armament policy. "The only problem with the grave we dug was that we left it empty. If we had filled it with little children, we might have been decorated," Berrigan commented...
...twelfth opera by the New York-born composer Thomas Pasatieri, 30; most of them have been performed either by U.S. regional opera companies or on television. A lurid tale of murder, intrigue and frustrated love, Ines de Castro builds to a climax in which the demented hero Dom Pedro places the cadaver of his true love Ines on the throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep of a Verdi, or the psychological insight...
...Patzún, which had been almost totally leveled, a truck bearing tortillas and beans appeared; it had been sent from the town of Santiago Atitlán, 70 miles away. The trip had taken seven hours as the travelers picked their way carefully around landslides. But Mayor Pedro Sosof Mesias, who led the expedition, proudly explained that the beans "are already cooked and ready to be eaten. We had to help...
Healing Powers. Franco frequently became quite lucid, occasionally chatting with his family and even discussing with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro the lineup of military forces that might confront each other in the Spanish Sahara. At one point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...
Kissinger was about to sit down with Spanish Foreign Minister Pedro Cortina Mauri in New York to continue negotiations for a new "friendship and cooperation" agreement between the two countries. At stake for the U.S. are its three Spanish airbases, which would be needed if the U.S. had to resupply Israel or counter Soviet intervention in the event of another Middle East war, and its nuclear submarine base at Rota. These installations, argue American officials, will also give Washington leverage in influencing Spain's transition to the post-Franco era. For Spain, the accord means about $750 million...