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Maldonado does this simply by campaigning openly and by indicting government corruption and repression. He speaks with the slow patience of a parish priest, seldom raising his voice. "To do so only frightens people," he says. "We are the only group who can bring peace to Guatemala, because we have no hate for anyone. We feel we are in good hands when we are with the people...
...Brandeis in Myers vs. United States, "was adopted ... not to promote efficiency, but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was ... to save the people from autocracy." His ardent disciple Felix Frankfurter, "half brother-half son," as Brandeis characterized him, agreed in his personal diary: "When a priest enters a monastery, he must leave ... all sorts of worldly desires behind him. And this court has no excuse for being unless it's a monastery...
After one such visit, a clergyman last week reported Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to be in "perfect" mental health and "full of enthusiasm." The priest, Henryk Jankowski of Gdansk, was allowed to meet with Walesa to arrange the baptism of his seventh child, Maria Victoria, born on Jan. 27. Walesa, who is reportedly being held in a government guest house near Warsaw, said that he expected to be freed in time for the March 7 christening ceremony. He also gave the priest a brief note saying that all previous appeals attributed to him had been "provocatively fabricated." Wrote Walesa...
...industry and instinct have made him a millionaire. But as time drags on, and Primo realizes that meeting the ransom demand will mean closing his factory, he begins to believe that everyone around him - his son's girlfriend (the darkly sensual Laura Morante), a radical worker-priest (Victor Cavallo), maybe even Primo's patrician wife (Anouk Aimee) - is involved in the abduction. Conspiracy or paranoia? Primo says: "I prefer not to know." And the film takes no sides, instead allowing both protagonist and moviegoer to entertain each terrible possibility...
...Nobel Prize, Tolm's fate as a prisoner of his own wealth and station is a model of contemporary political and moral confusion. The evidence surrounds him. Capitalists eat caviar from Russia and smoke cigars from Cuba; socialists spend an evening playing Monopoly, and the village priest sleeps with his housekeeper. Closer to home, Tolm's son Rolf is a former radical who now grows vegetables and lives with Katharina, mother of their son Holger, who is named after a dead German terrorist...