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Last week, in the Philippines, the government of President Ferdinand Marcos ordered Maryknoll Father Edward Shellito out of the country, claiming that he had not only fomented political unrest but had portrayed Jesus Christ as a rebel...
...been used to settle accounts between central banks for a decade, it still remains the barometer of world tension. From mud and straw shanties in India to plush villas in France, nervous people stash away Krugerrand coins or gold jewelry at the first sign of any political or economic unrest. Last week, after the Israel's attacked Iraq's nuclear reactor, the price of gold immediately shot...
...fiercely proud, tribally insular Afrikaner elite faces an increasingly irreconcilable dilemma: how to avoid massive civil unrest and bloodshed without relinquishing at least some power to the overwhelmingly nonwhite majority. The 2½-year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 65, has tried to make a beginning by limiting discriminatory practices like segregation at public facilities, lifting bans against mixed sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum...
Despite mounting domestic unrest, however, South Africa is still far more stable than pre-Zimbabwe Rhodesia, where blacks succeeded in establishing a government in 1980. The country is also far better equipped to withstand international pressure intended to force it to change...
...week had begun with some other troubling news. Two former Cabinet members under investigation for corruption-ex-Foreign Trade Minister Jerzy Olszewski, 60, and ex-Construction Minister Edward Barszcz, 53-committed suicide. Meanwhile, there were signs of a possible new wave of unrest as thousands of students marched to demand the release of political prisoners. Yet all other cares seemed to pale before the loss of the prelate whom one weeping woman described as "our strength through all these years-he was our shepherd...