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...Rios Montt's cardinal sin was being aggressively Protestant in a Catholic country. A member of a California-based sect called the Christian Church of the Word, he appointed two church elders as his principal advisers. He could also be petty: when Pope John Paul II toured the country last March, Rios Montt refused to provide government funds for a specially built car for the Pontiff...
Neither the Supreme Court nor anyone else has the right to decide what is right or wrong for others. If abortion is a sin, a power greater than our high court will take care of both sin and sinner in its own time...
...program. Citing her husband's ideal of "self-reliance through self-help," the First Lady declared: "There's no reason why the Philippines, which produces enough food, should import from or depend on foreign sources for its food supplies." Among those contesting such logic was Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila. Said he: "At present the full impact of the drought has not been felt, principally because the National Food Authority has been drawing on its stockpiles. But how long will these stockpiles last?" Although rains have begun to fall, many people expect no relief before November...
...procedure, one tends to believe her when she claims to have a headache. Still, that's the least of her meanness, and one is sympathetic, even relieved, when Martin makes a citizen's divorce (it consists of making an announcement and taking a hike) in order to sin in his mind, as it were...
...original sin in El Salvador was viewing the guerrillas solely as Soviet surrogates. Conflict in El Salvador resulted from economic, political and social inequities, not the long arm of the alleged worldwide communist revolution. But the Administration never negotiated seriously for a settlement. Last year's supposedly "democratic" elections backfired when an extreme right coalition took power. And they were a scheme to begin with because the guerrilla--afraid they would be murdered by the military--did not participate...