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...moral indignation, the Presi dent applied brimstone, aiming sulfurous blasts at the Soviet Union. "There is sin and evil in the world. And we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might . . . America has kept alight the torch of freedom . . . Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness - pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware they are the focus of evil in the modern world...
...church to oppose with all its moral might. Long fearful of government repression, the church hierarchy in Haiti issued a bold challenge to President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier's dictatorship in a pastoral letter read from pulpits last January. Among other things, it called on all believers to "pray to the Lord so he can free our country from torture...
...workers and missionaries suspected of leftist activity. A pivotal event was the 1980 assassination in San Salvador of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the government, while he was saying Mass. Romero has become a martyr to the poor and to the rebellious left. John Paul may pray at Romero's tomb in the Metropolitan Cathedral, a gesture fraught with political significance. The right wing contends that the guerrillas have distorted Romero's nonviolent, nonpartisan social views, and fears that the Pope's action will be used by the insurgents as an endorsement of their...
...Riace bronzes to promote the 1984 Olympics. "We must have the courage," declared the former Italian Minister for Arts and the Environment Vincenzo Scotti in a speech in New York last November, "to send our most precious masterpieces out of the country." It would be better to pray for the divine gift of cowardice and fly the audience to Italy instead...
...hopes everybody at ABC, which is giving a full week of prime time to Wouk's sweeping story of the events leading up to America's entry into World War II. When the show concludes on Sunday, Feb. 13, network executives pray, enough people will have been hooked to push the ratings close to-or, who knows, even past-those of the champion miniseries, Roots. "I think it will be the highest-rated program of the season," predicts George Keramidas, ABC's vice president of TV research, "and among the highest-rated mini-series of all time...