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...following story), another non-Arab country, Iran, had invaded Arab territory and seemed, moreover, to have a better-than-even chance of unseating the ruling government. At immediate risk were the moderate, hereditary regimes of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the gulf. But the Ayatullah Khomeini's vow was even more explosive: to press on to Jerusalem, to liberate the Holy City and overwhelm all enemies of Islam...
...trouble with all this worldly success is that its recipient, Father Andrew M. (for Moran) Greeley, 54, is a Roman Catholic priest. It is not so much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that...
...Pope had come to Fátima, ironically, to fulfill a vow of gratitude to the Virgin Mary for having saved his life just a year earlier, when Turkish Assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot him in St. Peter's Square. That attempt occurred on the very day, May 13, and almost at the same hour that three shepherd children tending their flocks in Fátima claimed to have seen the first of six apparitions of the Virgin, in 1917. To John Paul, his escape from death and his remarkable recovery from his wounds were nothing less than...
There is a restlessness about Moyers' career, a sense of peaks unsealed but longed for. Is it the political urge, which has tempted him several times? Moyers denies it: "I have taken the vow. When I finish all this, I hope to go teach." But he knows that people can get confused by his various styles of commentary-as advocate (Alaska pipeline story), as impressionistic reporter (Poland, El Salvador), or doing "straight-into-the-camera essays," sometimes punctuated by pictures...
April 26--In a surprise move, the 24 Black protesters voluntarily end Harvard's longest building occupation by leaving Mass Hall at 2:45 p.m. fists upraised. In a rally afterwards, they vow to continue to pressure Harvard to sell its Gulf holdings...