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...their accusations would have been aired during a long trial. But Valerian issued a prepared statement that his decision "is in no way to be considered an admission of the Government allegations." His lawyer, George E. Woods, a former U.S. Attorney in Detroit, denies that the 66-year-old archbishop caved in before a strong prosecution case. Valerian, he says, was ailing and simply tired of the legal fight that has already cost $100,000, supplied through donations of church members...
...Archbishop Valerian remains head of his denomination, living in a 25-room house on its headquarters estate in Grass Lake, Mich. Once the Justice Department completes the steps to strip him of citizenship, it will have to begin the lengthy process of deporting...
...been exceptions to the rule. Some priests have been, in fact, ministers from other religions who had converted. In some Eastern Rite Catholic churches, married men can become priests, though almost never bishops. In the U.S., by contrast, married priests, converts or not, are virtually unknown. But last week Archbishop John Quinn, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced a startling decision. The ex-Episcopal priests will be individually evaluated by the Vatican, and if widowed, they will not be permitted to remarry, but they can become Catholic priests and remain married...
...among them Israel, South Africa and Paraguay, recognize it. Tin miners continue a costly strike ($1.5 million a day in lost export earnings). Not even all the military approve of the coup: Garcia Meza's reshuffling of troop commanders is seen as a clear sign of suspect allegiance. Archbishop Jorge Manriquez Hurtado of La Paz and Bolivia's Council of Bishops have condemned the junta for creating a "climate of violence." On Aug. 6, Independence Day, the day he probably would have been chosen President, Siles Zuazo announced from his hideaway that he was forming a clandestine "government...
Even before the Archbishop's murder, the military's strong-arm attempts to maintain order had provoked the angry walkout of two civilians in the ruling junta. The junta averted collapse only when a leading moderate, Christian Democrat Party Leader José Napoleón Duarte, was persuaded to join it last March. Its hold on power, however, remains tenuous because it is caught in a vise between the right and the left. Earlier this year a rightist coup that would have ushered in a full-scale military takeover was quashed at the last minute, mostly because Washington...