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Despite its pious homilies on the dangers of protectionism, the U.S. is one of the offenders. The Reagan Administration has forced Japan to accept a "voluntary" three-year quota on car exports and has limited steel imports from Western Europe. Some members of Congress, encouraged by organized labor, hope to go even further. A bill requiring a large percentage of American-made parts in imported cars has 220 co-sponsors in the House and the endorsement of Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and John Glenn...
When the Rev. Emmanuel Milingo was named Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka in 1969, his qualifications seemed considerable: he was energetic, pious, modest, well educated and possessed of a popular touch. Milingo has not exactly lived up to the Vatican's hopes. Since April, he has been sequestered at a monastery in Rome for a year of "rest and reflection," as well as psychiatric observation. Milingo's detention has angered many Zambian Catholics, who held two large rallies in Kabwe last week demanding that the Vatican "release" their archbishop by Nov. 4. Some are even threatening schism...
...superlative nonsense. In the university town of Salamanca, where Sancho once studied with the philosopher Unamuno, they wander into a Spanish house of prostitution. The unsuspecting Quixote comments, "What a large staff of charming young women for so small a hotel." Ignorant of films, for example, he picks a pious-sounding title for his first viewing. X-rated grunts of A Maiden's Prayer, however, make him wonder: "They seemed to suffer such a lot. From the sounds they made." His more worldly companion advises, "They were pretending-this is acting, father-to have unbearable pleasure...
...pious patriotism of the Argentines, reflected in such current stories from the front, is hardly restricted to the military. Father Agustin Luchia Puig, editor of the Roman Catholic magazine Esquiú (named after a 19th century Argentine bishop), declared that "all Argentines, in church and out, believe our cause is just. I think that the good God is content with this faith of ours." One of the country's notably progressive prelates, Archbishop Vicente Faustino Zazpe of Santa Fe, in northern Argentina, last week assailed "the treason of the United States" and the "hopeless hysteria of England," singling...
There is not a false note in Short Shorts. The contents-38 fictions-range back to Leo Tolstoy's The Three Hermits, whose pious innocents forget a prayer and run on top of the ocean to find their condescending teacher. The most recent are powerful condensations of modern life by Heinrich Boll, who describes a professional laugher producing merriment on cue for everyone but himself, and Paula Fox, whose News from the World describes a woman and her contaminated seaside village withering for lack of love. Between these terminals, Chekhov, Kafka, Mishima, Hemingway, Borges and a score of other...