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...parade route, near the Seattle Public Library, a group of antiwar protesters made V signs of peace and chanted: "Bring 'em all back!" For some of the soldiers, it was the first face-to-face contact with peace demonstrators. "It really made the men mad," said Sergeant Rick Spellman. "You read about it, but you have no idea of what it's really like until...
Inner-City Programs. Archbishop Terence J. Cooke has been an all but automatic choice since he succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Spellman as head of the New York archdiocese last March. Similarly, Archbishop John J. Carberry of St. Louis was considered in line for promotion to the college as soon as he took over that see last year; his two immediate predecessors were cardinals. Both Cooke and Carberry are cautious on theological matters-both have firmly defended the Pope's birth-control encyclical-but are advocates of aggressive inner-city programs in their racially explosive archdioceses...
...Puerto Rico and a monsignor. But in 1960 he disagreed with the political intervention of Puerto Rico's Bishop James McManus when the bishop tried to forbid Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin, who favored experimental birth control centers. The late Francis Cardinal Spellman, to whose diocese Illich was permanently attached, eased Illich home...
...criticisms of U.S. Catholic programs in Latin America won Illich the enmity of Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, a chief sponsor of such aid programs. Illich's other ideas and the innovations at Cuernavaca provoked mutterings at the Vatican. Cardinal Spellman remained an ally; shortly before his death he flatly refused a request from the Mexican Bishops' Conference to recall Illich "until sustaining reasons are brought forth." But in Rome, Antonio Cardinal Samorè, conservative president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, issued continuing demands for an investigation of Illich and the center, until the Sacred...
Following publication of two books of satire, How to Be President and Moon Missing, Sorel created "Sorel's Bestiary" for Ramparts. Every month he classified by species one of the public figures he liked least, The late Francis Cardinal Spellman became a red bird called Spellmanus Bellicosus, riding a missile and clutching an olive branch in his teeth. Lyndon Johnson appeared as a crocodile. Truman Capote swam in a murky Central Park lake as a swellfish (libris vendor...