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Marathon Meeting. The newest crisis grew out of three issues: 1) the seizure by leftist printers of the Socialist newspaper República, which reopened briefly last week only to be closed again; 2) a takeover by workers of Rádio Renascença, the official station of the Roman Catholic Church, which led to violence between Catholic and anticlerical demonstrators; 3) a bid by the Socialists to turn the new Constituent Assembly into a more formal parliament; that move was opposed by the Communists because their representation, based on their 12.5% showing in April's elections, would...
...Renascença affair sharply echoes the República dispute. Trouble has been brewing at the station ever since Catholic authorities refused to allow newscasters to report the return from exile of Soares and Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal after the 1974 revolution. Three weeks ago workers who wanted a say in the radio's editorial policy seized control and began broadcasting. When 3,000 anticlerical leftists turned out to demonstrate at the residence of António Cardinal Ribeiro in Lisbon last week, they were met by 700 Catholics. The Catholics, including 150 priests and 30 nuns...
Last week, after months of rumors that negotiations were under way, the Montoneros released Jorge Born, 41, at a railway station near the capital. Juan, 40, had been quietly released several months ago, apparently because his abductors feared for his health, but the news had been withheld so as not to endanger Jorge. Reported size of the Borns' ransom, perhaps the largest ever paid: $60 million...
...wage talks were deadlocked, and workers seemed on the verge of industrial turmoil. There was a two-day strike at heavy-industry plants in Córdoba; when demonstrations were banned by the authorities acting under state-of-siege powers, three policemen were gunned down at a power station just outside the city. In Buenos Aires, police broke up a demonstration by taxi drivers outside Government House; the riderless drivers want a supply of cheap gasoline set aside so they can lower their fares and win back passengers...
...once owned by Basketball Star Julius Erving? $201. These and other market values were set at what one TV critic described as "an upper-middle-class version of Let's Make a Deal," a nine-day fund-raising auction held onscreen by New York's public television station WNET. While some 500 celebrities acted as auctioneers, WNET viewers phoned in bids on donated goods and services ranging from Warren Beatty's working script for Shampoo ($250) to a night at the opera with Actor Tony Randall ($1,000). WNET officials reckoned that the auction would...