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Devin is part Catholic, and a little unsteadily, he whispers the prayer to himself. "We can leave if you want," he says after a while. "No, no, we'll leave whenever you want," I say. So we stay around until the end. I'm just thankful hes herehis presence prevents my being alone and vulnerable to another crying...
...Highlands have denounced him (under duress, he says). He admits to having been in contact with highlanders but says the organizers informed him that they planned to demonstrate nonviolently and rejected his counsel to wait till the fall. Ksor says he also suggested they call it a prayer vigil, not a protest. International attention, not an independent state, Ksor adds, was the goal. However, he didn't help his cause by claiming later that 400 people were "massacred" over the Easter weekend. This wild estimate was a gambit, he says, to force Hanoi to open the region to external observers...
...terrorists? (According to diplomatic sources, the government offered a $1 million ransom for De la Cruz but the insurgents turned it down.) Arroyo's own presidency may have been at stake just weeks after she won re-election to office. After De la Cruz was kidnapped, protests and prayer vigils calling for troop withdrawal were held all across the Philippines. Some 4,000 Catholic priests and bishops released a petition urging Arroyo to do everything in her power to gain his freedom. Rallies in the capital, Manila, were getting rowdier by the day. "The only logical explanation for this change...
...succeed anywhere in the 21st century, above all not Iraq," chided U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Why did Arroyo negotiate with the terrorists? Arroyo's own presidency may have been at stake - just weeks after she won re-election. After De la Cruz was kidnapped, protests and prayer vigils calling for troop withdrawal were held across the Philippines. Some 4,000 Catholic priests and bishops released a petition urging Arroyo to do everything in her power to gain his freedom. Rallies in Manila were getting rowdier by the day. Senator Rodolfo Biazon notes: "Had [Arroyo] not listened...
...that the Creator has a benevolent interest in mankind. Others, most notably those who followed in the Puritan footsteps of Cotton Mather, had faith in a more specific doctrine, sometimes called "special Providence," which held that God has a direct involvement in human lives and intervenes based on personal prayer...