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...Hungary, every diocese now .has a bishop for the first time since 1948. But while an estimated 65% of the population are Catholic, far fewer attend religious services. That is partly the result of a long vacuum in Catholic leadership during Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty's 15 years of asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest. The appeal of the spiritual is by no means dead, though. When Protestants invited Billy Graham to Hungary last year, his first rally drew...
...defining leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers--not as a state attained by a vacuum-packed individual--Burns transcends the old assumption that either leaders or followers make history...
...political participation. "The Shah has been imaginative and flexible in his economic and foreign policy, but not politically," says Professor J.C. Hurewitz, director of Columbia University's Middle East Institute. "He's given no freedom to the Iranian intellectuals. The result is that Iran suffers from a political vacuum: the people feel left out of things." One hopeful sign may be that the opposition does not have a common ground. Thus for their own purposes, both left and right would probably be satisfied if they were given a greater voice in government and if constitutional restrictions were placed...
...body that was out of touch with the rest of the students. The group that wanted to wait prevailed. As a result, those steering the convention have washed their hands, to a large extent, of the responsibility of student government reform. This has left a tremendous vacuum. No one knows exactly what is going on, and everyone points to the first Student Assembly elections as the key to the future of student input to University policy...
...step down presents a dilemma for American policymakers. The U.S. has long supported the dynasty as a stronghold of antiCommunism; Somoza often paraded around Central America as if he were a U.S. proconsul. Washington is anxious to change that image, but it does not want to see a power vacuum that could be filled by a pro-Castro regime. The U.S. has, however, taken soundings of Nicaragua's neighbors. Said an Administration official: "The consensus is that the sooner Somoza gets out, the better...