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Duarte is especially proud of his success in curbing the death squads. In the three months since inauguration day, there have been about 450 killings, down from 630 during the previous three months. According to Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, fewer people "disappear" while in the custody of police and army officers, and relatives are being permitted to visit prisoners with increasing frequency...
...donation should be licensed and regulated; research on embryos up to 14 days old could be permitted, also under license and regulation; but the use of surrogate mothers should be forbidden because such arrangements are "liable to moral objection." Critics on all sides did not hesitate to attack. A Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice of AID "morally unacceptable," while a newspaper columnist denounced restrictions on pregnancy as "ludicrously inconsistent." But unless such differences are settled, warned Sir John Peel, former president of the British Medical Association, society will confront "the brink of something almost like the atomic bomb...
...courts have been increasingly forced to intervene. A typical case was Syrkowski vs. Appleyard in Michigan. George Syrkowski and his wife had contracted to pay Corinne Appleyard $10,000 to bear his child, but a state court refused to recognize him as the father. Detroit Circuit Court Judge Roman Gribbs ruled in 1981 that surrogate arrangements are not for a court to approve but are "matters of legislative concern." However, Michigan has no state laws regulating the hiring of surrogate mothers, an omission that Richard Fitzpatrick, a Democrat in the state legislature, has been trying to correct for three years...
DIED. Lawrence Shehan, 86, Roman Catholic Cardinal since 1965 and retired Archbishop of Baltimore and an eloquent advocate of civil rights and ecumenism; in Baltimore. He was ordained in 1922, consecrated a bishop in 1945, and named Archbishop of his home town in 1961. He quickly ordered the desegregation of all schools and other institutions under his jurisdiction, and in 1963 took part in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington. A strong believer in reconciliation between Catholicism and other faiths, including Judaism, he spoke in an Orthodox synagogue in 1965 and served in the Vatican...
Sweating profusely in the Nicaraguan heat on a March day in 1983, Pope John Paul II was forced to demand silence from a crowd of Sandinista hecklers present at an outdoor Mass in Managua. When Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua's Marxist government, knelt to receive the Pope's blessing, John Paul wagged his finger in Cardenal's face and chided him, "You must straighten out your position with the church." These episodes, and his own keen observations during an eight-day-long visit to Central...