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...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). World Surfing Championships at Waikiki and Kontiki, mountain climbing in the Peruvian Andes. Color...
Since then he has gathered the largest such collection in the U.S. One figure, a beautifully preserved Peruvian drinking vessel, has a black-spotted face, black hands, a lip partially eaten away -symptoms of leprosy. Others lie on hospital beds, held down by restraining bonds as if they had a violent illness. Some seem to show the ravages of smallpox, cancer, dropsy, malnutrition, and give evidence of impressive achievements in techniques of amputation and other surgery a thousand years before Columbus. Pregnancy, an annual event, is portrayed as a happy occurrence, except for one rare sculpture of a dejected girl...
...accents. From the extent of the raids, police estimated that at least three bands were operating in the area, and reports put their strength at anywhere from 200 to 1,000 men. One of the guerrilla leaders was identified as Luis de la Puente Uceda, 36, a well-known Peruvian troublemaker who studied tactics in Cuba and visited both Russia and Red China...
...guard the U.S. embassy downtown. Helicopters evacuating the remaining Americans and other nationals drew rebel gunfire. Snipers opened up on the Marine company dug in around the embassy; the leathernecks fired back, killing four rebels. The Salvadoran embassy was sacked and burned; shots spattered into the Mexican, Peruvian and Ecuadorian embassies. "This is collective madness," U.S. Ambassador Bennett told newsmen. "I don't know where we go from here...
Even in the Roman Catholic Church, where bishops overwhelmingly reject the idea, at least a few theologians wonder about the possibility of change. In a recent book, Peruvian Jesuit José Idigoras argued that there was no difference in the rites of ordination for deacons and deaconesses in early Christianity, and that St. Paul's misogynistic teachings ("I permit no woman to teach") must be interpreted in light of women's position at the time. Some members of the St. Joan's International Alliance, an association of equality-seeking Catholic women, have petitioned Rome to allow women...