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...taking up his listeners' time--as though everything he has to say was obvious long ago, or as though he has said it many times before. He is 39, a social-democrat, the son of a rich canton chief killed by insurgents in 1954, the nephew of the archbishop of Saigon, the former chairman of the anti-corruption and information committees of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Vietnam. He founded, published and edited the Saigon newspaper Tin Sang. He was the chairman of South Vietnam's Association of Newspaper Editors...
Five new saints besides Mother Seton were also named by the Pope: three Spaniards, an Italian and one Irishman, Archbishop Oliver Plunket, primate of Ireland from 1669 to 1681. Beginning in 1673, Irish priests were forced into hiding or exile, and Plunket had to carry on his pastoral work in secrecy and disguise. Arrested in 1679, he was hanged by the English two years later on trumped-up treason charges. Given the bloody religious war now raging in Ulster, the choice of Plunket for canonization in the Holy Year of 1975 seemed to many politically inept...
...counted among the dead, but here I am among the living." Thus, with tears rolling down his cheeks, Archbishop Makarios returned to Cyprus, five months after he had been ousted as the island's President by the Greek military junta's coup d'état. A crowd of 200,000, shouting "Makarios! Makarios!" welcomed him and offered its support for a settlement between Greeks and Turks. "Proceed, proceed," the crowd chanted. "The people are with you." Though he would never accept a partition of the island, Makarios said, "it is possible to safeguard the rights of both...
...from the deep and bitter division between the overwhelming majority of Greek Cypriots who are loyal to Makarios and the small (2,000 members) but powerful EOKA-B organization. During last summer's coup, the EOKA-B sided with the then ruling Greek military junta to overthrow the archbishop. Unlike the leaders of the Athens junta, most of whom are now under arrest and awaiting trial on a Greek isle, the EOKA-B gunmen remain at large, mainly because Greek Cypriot authorities are eager to avoid another violent showdown after the debacle of the Turkish invasion...
While the archbishop's return poses problems for Cyprus, a viable settlement without him is out of the question. The wily prelate, who has been President since 1960, commands wide popular support, and he is fully aware that he holds the key to a permanent solution. As he reportedly told U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Washington, "I cannot do anything about the settlement that is made on Cyprus by the superpowers, but it is well within my power to destroy what you decide...