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...kidnapings and terrorism has frightened away investment. The result: 30% unemployment and runaway inflation. Warns Accountant Hector Figueros of San Salvador: "If there is no economic assistance, the country will collapse." Washington has offered $50 million in financial aid. While admitting that the outlook is bleak, State Department officials profess some heavily guarded optimism. Last week, for example, they were gratified by the junta's promise to set a timetable for "popular and free elections" within 30 days. Observes a Latin America expert: "The government has survived, and that in itself is miraculous...
That left Washington Senator Henry Jackson as the only potential candidate who seemed ready to jump into the fray. Carter's strategists, however, profess to have no fear of Jackson because they are certain that he does not have enough national, congressional or party support...
...price of survival is high. Article 52 of the 1977 Soviet constitution assures citizens the "right to profess or not to profess any religion and to conduct religious worship." But the church is not permitted to give formal religious instruction to those under age 18. It is against Soviet law for a congregation to worship in public unless its members are officially registered. The state wields total control over whether a parish can use or repair a building, indeed whether a parish can exist...
Government spokesmen profess pleasure with things as they are. So does Archbishop Nikodim, 59, who is substituting for the ailing Metropolitan Yuvenali as foreign affairs director of the church. "In the West, for some reason, thousands of Orthodox priests in Russia are considered nearly as traitors, and two or three [dissident] persons are considered to be the church," says Nikodim. "I don't know Father Dudko. Maybe he is a wonderful person. But I think groups that exist, or would like to exist, around Dudko and others are not for the benefit of the church, since our church finds...
...South Carolina of 1918, "mixed" affairs must be kept as clandestine as possible to prevent public humiliation, ridicule, or surprise late night visits from the local Ku Klux Klan. The two keep to themselves, celebrating their tenth anniversary alone in her shabby room with a small wedding cake. They profess undying love for each other and hope for the day when they can go North to marry. Yet guilt gnaws at their relationship...