Word: romanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massacre at Varilla two months ago was not unique, according to a pastoral letter by Nicaragua's Roman Catholic bishops. The letter, which has not been published because of government censorship, was read from pulpits in January. It accuses President Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Debayle's National Guard of subjecting innocent peasants to "inhuman" abuse "ranging from torture and rape to summary execution" during the government's two-year drive against leftist guerrillas. The bishops buttressed their charges with testimony from rural missionaries-who claim that dead and kidnaped campesinos number in the hundreds...
...Roman Catholic Church really believe that a vocation to the priesthood is a call from God? If we did, we would avoid the need for arguments to support a ban on women priests [Feb. 7]. We could leave the priesthood open to all, and then the Almighty could choose whom he wished...
...stories of the "Uganda martyrs," a group of about 200 Christian converts who were persecuted and put to death in the 1880s by King Mwanga, ruler of Buganda, the largest of Uganda's four ancient tribal kingdoms. In 1964, 22 of the martyrs were canonized by the Roman Catholic Church...
Marriage Revealed. Lesley Stahl, 35, CBS News Washington correspondent; and Aaron Latham, 33, former reporter and author of an upcoming roman à clef (Orchids for Mother) about the CIA; she for the second time, he for the first; on Feb. 17, in Washington, D.C. The couple met in 1973 when Stahl was covering the Senate Watergate hearings for CBS and Latham interviewed her for a New York magazine story...
Caesar and Cleopatra is afflicted by the mummy's curse. Despite two or three of the best scenes in the Shavian canon, the play itself may be unworkable: lines by Shaw but construction by Rube Goldberg. Offstage there are battles, mob scenes and the endless clumping of Roman legions. Onstage there are only words; even in this finger exercise for Pygmalion Shaw seemed to be heading toward what he later called playwriting as a "platonic exercise...