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...after the murders, according to the report, a priest near the village of Santa Rita Almendros was told by several peasants that they had been ordered by some National Police and local civil guardsmen to bury the bodies of four American women. Informed of this through the office of San Salvador's acting Archbishop Rivera y Damas, Ambassador White drove to the village about 30 miles east of the capital. There the bodies of the victims were found in an unmarked grave...
...since 1975, businessmen boast of the new mall with 26 stores; clapboard houses that sold for $30,000 in 1974 now go for better than twice that amount. But Sheriff S.L. Valdez is handling three times the calls he did two years ago, and Carl Andrews, an Episcopal priest, reports a heavy incidence of depression and child abuse. Says he: "A lot of the hopes and dreams never materialize. All of the fast-moving frenzy, people living crowded in their neighbors' lives, is more than some can bear...
...leading leftists. Perhaps because courage was the admission price, only about 2,000 people turned out for the leftists' funeral at San Salvador's huge, gray Metropolitan Cathedral. The ceremonies were marked more by anger than sorrow. Shouted the Rev. David Rodriguez, a Salvadoran priest: "We know that in the blood of the martyrs who lie here is the spirit of liberty...
...pivotal characters are fictional: an aging bestselling novelist named Kenneth Marchal Toomey and Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Toomey is modeled on W. Somerset Maugham and Campanati is an exuberant exaggeration of Pope John XXIII...
...children receiving instructions for their First Communion, were attending evening Mass when the marble floor began to heave and the heavy candlesticks to wobble on the main altar. "It was as though a giant passing train had shaken the building to its foundations," recalled Father Giuseppe Pagliuca, the parish priest. As the terrified congregation fled toward the doors, the huge roof split in two and collapsed, throwing Pagliuca clear but burying the worshipers under a mountain of stone. The bleeding figure of a town official landed at the priest's feet. "Lord have mercy on me," the man whispered...