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...turned out to be not so much a program as a pogrom. A skit depicting a priest lewdly opposing contraception so offended the nation's Catholics that the BBC was forced to apologize publicly. Fortnight ago, Panelist Bernard Levin called Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home "a cretin." When Guest Panelist and onetime Tory Cabinet Minister Iain Macleod rebuked him for such "crude, vulgar words of abuse," a grinning Levin agreed to change "cretin" to "imbecile...
...presence of the priest, as well as that of other churchmen who have joined the civil rights cause in Alabama in recent weeks, remained a problem. Obviously, many were drawn there by the conviction that their consciences and their sense of Christian duty demanded no less. Others were there simply to win merit badges, still others to test their own personal commitments in the crucible of violence. Some had come be cause, as Wilson Baker said, they felt that "someone else must die in Selma to bring this movement to its climax...
...Time to Choose. Mrs. Paul Douglas suggested that "it seems if we wait two more days we are losing a great deal of public support." A Roman Catholic priest from Baltimore declared that "it's about time we walked that last mile...
...woods, violence is unearthed with horror, poetry and compassion in one brief shot of snails inching across the dead girl's leg. In another agonizing sequence, the lady of the manor haltingly discusses her frigidity and her husband's unusual demands with an acquisitive young priest who prefers to talk about repairs for the church roof. "1 can only stress that for you there must be no pleasure," he offers distractedly...
...textiles, detergents) is flowing into Quito and Guayaquil. In the highlands, where half of Ecuador's 4,700,000 people (80% of them Indian-descended) still live, some hacienda workers are paid only 50 a day, are often treated with medieval cruelty. "On many haciendas," says a parish priest, "there is neither...