Word: priests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as the French were in control, the rivalry between the territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation...
...permits, good only for 60 days, would not be renewed for mobster-owned casinos. The hoods hope that a batch of clean front men will meet the government inspection. One of them posed Castro's dilemma neatly: "Only gamblers can run casinos-you can't get a priest or a garage mechanic." The mob was quite happy to be working with a government noted for purity. Said one operator last week: "Me, I'm glad those greedy Batista crooks got bounced...
...Hilton suite and into the confusion of a stucco chalet named High Ranch, on a hill east of Havana. Typical scene one noon in the living room: a woman travel writer asleep on a couch, cigar butts on the floor, a disconnected chandelier. Outside on the porch a cassocked priest sat reading the funny papers...
This month Photographer Tsuchiya published his pictures. Samples: loinclothed priests playing mah-jongg instead of sitting in immobile meditation, a priest drinking with a bar hostess, two novices staggering along a Kobe street late at night with a barmaid between them. Tsuchiya quoted one priest as saying: "By listening to good music and gazing on ikibosatu [the living Buddha], I feel I can understand the teachings." This wisdom was Tsuchiya's caption for a photograph of the same priest happily gaping at pictures of virtually naked women...
...week's end the embarrassed temple council set about saving face in the best Japanese tradition. Photographer Tsuchiya agreed to apologize publicly and destroy all his negatives. The two novices pictured most revealingly agreed to expulsion-and then reinstatement. Head Priest Mumon Yamada blamed it all on an influx of university-trained novices who lack moral fiber. Lamented Yamada: It was not so in the old days, when novices were poor boys without education or appetite for soft living...