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...experts as a "basket case," was already in a severe tailspin. Foreign debt had reached $26 billion, gross national product was shrinking at an annual rate of about 5%, and underemployment was estimated to be 40%. An opinion poll taken by a private think tank with ties to the Roman Catholic Church, however, showed that 44% of the population was willing to credit Marcos and his ruling party with doing a good job. More important, the democratic forces that had been galvanized by the 1983 assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino were in serious disarray. Nonetheless, Marcos shelved...
...Salonga, a center-leftist with strong nationalist leanings. Salonga, however, is blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and carries 100 pieces of shrapnel in his body as the result of a political bombing in 1971. Along with those debilitating injuries, he is a Protestant in a predominantly Roman Catholic country...
...before All Souls' Day, a Roman Catholic holiday also known as the Day of the Dead. As part of the Mexican government's efforts to crack down on drug smugglers, 17 policemen made a sweep of the mountainous "bandit country" in the state of Veracruz, 300 miles southeast of Mexico City. Nearing the banks of the Coachapa River in predawn darkness, the government force surprised a gang of some 50 drug traffickers in the act of loading 1,300 lbs. of marijuana onto a boat. The police had hardly shouted a warning when the smugglers opened fire...
DIED. James Groppi, 54, former Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist who marched in Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King Jr., led at least 200 marches for open housing in Milwaukee and was arrested more than a dozen times for his protests; of brain cancer; in Milwaukee. When Groppi left the priesthood in 1976 to marry a fellow activist, he was excommunicated from the church. He later worked as a bus driver and in 1983 became president of his city's transit-union local. He once told an interviewer, "Agitate, agitate, agitate is my motto...
...bombings that have taken more than 2,500 lives over the past 17 years are more primly referred to as "the troubles." The spasms of killing have followed the ebb and flow of ancient hates and fears that divide the British province's Protestant majority and its Roman Catholic minority. Because so many attempts to break the deadly cycle of attack and revenge have ended in failure, it is a wonder that political leaders still have the courage to try again, when even the merest hint of change in the status quo brings threats of more bloodshed from extremists...