Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just after evening prayers, the cloistered silence of the hilltop Carmelite convent in Marawi City was shattered by shouts and shrieks. Thirteen armed men barged in and took ten Filipino nuns hostage. Less than 24 hours later, another group of men grabbed Brian Lawrence, an American Protestant missionary living at the Mindanao State University near the Carmelite convent...
While he was in prison, Ortega and Rosario Murillo, one of the leading poets in the Sandinista movement, exchanged poems. (Poetry is a national passion in Nicaragua.) Murillo, who was educated in a British convent school, helped Ortega stay in contact with other prisoners and the outside world. She later became his common-law wife...
...Director Billy Einhorn passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering egos, any notice, any brush with glory, will do. The upshot is at least four deaths, three shattered romances, one imprisonment, one resignation from a convent and the needless scorching of two Brillo pads...
Things quicken and contract. At the Center for Family Life, Geraldine plays cards with Michael in her office, after Michael's group has dispersed. They talk in whispers. Upstairs in the convent, Mary Paul completes some paper work, prepares a dinner of cold salad and sits down to watch the news...
...other formal daily prayers. There is no religious cast whatever to the center. On the ground floor are a reception room and Geraldine's office. On the upper floors, staff offices, consultation rooms, a large "family room" used for parties and group sessions. The top floor constitutes the convent for the two nuns. This is their place of privacy...