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...negotiations mediated by San Salvador's Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, the Duarte administration agreed to the kidnapers' demand that 22 political prisoners be freed. The government also granted safe conduct out of El Salvador to 101 wounded guerrillas in need of medical treatment. In return, the F.M.L.N. handed over Duarte Durán and Villeda to intermediaries in the bombed-out town of Tenancingo, north of San Salvador. The rebels also began releasing 33 mayors and municipal officials abducted during the past six months...
...almost a half-century, Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward were inseparably joined by the name of their Roman Catholic publishing house, Sheed & Ward. But to their son they were powerfully eccentric individuals who happened to be linked by marriage. Frank was first and last "the man at the piano," demonstrating his photographic memory for the music and lyrics of any song he had heard more than once. He had risen, noisily, from the Australian working class. Maisie, eight years Frank's senior, proceeded from a long line of English-gentry Catholics for whom being Catholic constituted a full-time career...
...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...