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...college and opponent of Senator Fulbright. But to identify the social and political policy of an entire church with that of one of its more prominent members seems only comparatively less accurate than to accuse all Roman Catholics of bigotry because of the actions of a Leander Perez or a Mrs. Gaillot...
...Gaillot Jr., president of segregationist Save Our Nation Inc. She is a Roman Catholic, and when Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, ordered full desegregation of New Orleans parochial schools for next fall, Mrs. Gaillot responded with picketing and loud protest. She was not alone. Leander Perez, influential political boss of Plaquemines Parish and also a Catholic, suggested reprisals against the clergy: "Cut off their water. Quit giving them money to feed their fat bellies." And State Representative Rodney Buras of New Orleans proclaimed that he would fight Arch, bishop Rummel's demand for desegregation "even to the extreme...
...Catholic parochial schools have 48,000 students (compared with 93,000 in public schools), Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, eight years ago denounced segregation as "morally wrong and sinful." Last week the archdiocese announced that "all Catholic children" may now apply to all Catholic schools. Cried Political Boss Leander Perez, a segregationist and Roman Catholic: "What can the people do? They can stop putting their money in the collection plate and feeding those bishops and priests who are destroying our children...
...voted Communist in 1957. - And her body, well embalmed, was kept in a hushed room in the C.G.T. Building. After Per&243;n fell, it disappeared. *First stop on a long trail leading to Madrid. Other stops: Paraguay, Panama, followed by residences in lands then ruled by fellow dictators -Perez Jimenez' Venezuela, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Franco's Spain...
...believe in nuclear holocaust is pessimistic; to believe in conventional warfare or peace, optimistic; to say what will happen, stupidity. Perez C. Ehrich...