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Religious Dissent The story on Ireland's shrinking priesthood began with an unappealing mock classified ad [Dec. 14]. How about "Wanted: Young men with no interest in sex with women to work with impressionable young boys?" This marketing line worked in the past. William Silvert, PERAL, PORTUGAL...
...with the ministry's payroll, $600,000 in cash. Soon everyone began recalling little things about handsome Captain Rodriguez, a colonel's son and a smart officer. They recalled how he had separated from his wife, and had taken up with an expensively beautiful brunette named Africa Peral Redondo, who was only 28 to his 40. Out went the alarm for the arrest of both of them. But this was nothing to the alarm that broke out when it was learned that Rodriguez and Africa had escaped to Paris, where Rodriguez was claiming political asylum as an anti...
...this happened in a time of growing tension. The aged Marquis of Peral, in whose olive groves Caro and Mudarra worked, had taken less & less interest in his lands, turned them over to hard, thieving Argote, political boss in the days before Alfonso abdicated, who grafted, plotted, had Anarchist troublemakers killed. When the olive-pickers stormed the groves in a dispute about wages, the punishment was drastic: 80 men were arrested by the Civil Guard. When a protest meeting was held it was fired on, and 24 were killed. The aged Marquis woke up too late to a realization...
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