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...Belfast, the British campaign to cripple the I.R.A. intensified. At least 16 suspected Proves were arrested in the bloody Ardoyne area. Police also raided a house in the Roman Catholic Lower Falls Road area and uncovered what they claimed was a central I.R.A. "factory" for explosives: fire bombs wired to watches and American-made booby traps as well as arms and ammunition. More important, they found and arrested Tommy Maguire, one of the Provisionals' top explosive experts, who had been at large since he escaped from Belfast's Crumlin Road jail four years...
Blessed with a rightist government and a conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy, Portugal before the April revolution was one of the least libidinous countries in Europe. Striptease shows, topless dancers, dirty books and X-rated movies were, legally, at least, not allowed into the country. At the most, an occasional street vendor would risk arrest by the morals squad and peddle a few bootlegged copies of Playboy or some other forbidden girlie import. The morals squad still exists, but since the April revolution, the risk has gone out of eroticism. In fact, one of the curious consequences of the coup that...
Frontal Shots. The outburst of porn has made strange bedfellows of Roman Catholic bishops, the Communist Party, the actors union and even some impresarios, all of whom are pondering the age-old question of how to have liberty without license. "Debauchery is a pig's breakfast," one anguished citizen wrote the Lisbon weekly Expresso. There have even been charges that the CIA is sponsoring the new pornography to sap the revolution of its energies. Recently, Premier Vasco Gonçalves on nationwide television admonished his people to fight "pseudo-leftists and anarchists instead of going to see the pornography...
However pragmatic the goal, today's calls for fasting from churchmen often pointedly recall the historic religious practice, which Eastern Orthodox Christians still widely observe and Roman Catholics have only recently moved away from. The new fasts, for example, have been called by many churchmen, both Catholic and Protestant, for Wednesdays, a traditional Christian fast day once associated with Judas' plot to betray Christ. The goal is not usually a complete fast but a general cutback in the amount of food eaten. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations will launch an antihunger campaign this month that includes, among...
When the Communists took over in 1949, there were roughly 4 million Roman Catholics and Protestant Christians in China, 13,000 missionaries, and a widespread Christian influence in schools and universities. In a 1950 speech, Premier Chou En-lai promised religious freedom, and the country's 1954 constitution guaranteed it. Faith, nevertheless, soon became heavily politicized. Chinese Christians were cut off from foreign-mission boards and, in the case of Catholics, from Rome...