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...since 1964, he is an amiable, moderate conservative who often puts in a 16-hour day but stays out of the island's political battles. One name was notably missing from the five other Latin Americans to get red hats: Brazil's famed prelate of the poor, Dom Helder Pessoa Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife. But Dom Helder did not go unrewarded. The same day the papal list became public, he was chosen for an honor of a different kind. For his work in behalf of social justice and peaceful change in Brazil, nine members...
...certain aura of predictability surrounded events last week on the tiny (122 sq. mi.) Mediterranean island of Malta. Britain's quarterly payment of $8,325,000 to cover the cost of garrisoning 2,800 troops on the island had been refused by Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. The fiery Mintoff, in rebuffing the routine payment from the Bank of England, 1) demanded higher rent from Britain; 2) intimated that he would evict the troops unless he received it; 3) flew to Tripoli seeking support from Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi; and 4) tried to con other NATO nations that share...
...year contract covering support payments for the modest British air and naval force that has remained on Malta since the island was granted sovereignty in 1964. Whitehall was paying $12 million a year; Mintoff demanded $72 million and delivered so many eviction ultimatums that he earned the nickname "Deadline Dom." Britain refused to give in to Mintoff's demands. Instead, Whitehall flew special demolition teams into Malta to dismantle the British bases, and it bundled up wives and children and deserted a post where Englishmen have served since Napoleonic days. In the end, Mintoff accepted a $36.4 million annual...
Bruce Cation's father was the principal of Benzonia Academy, where cows roamed the campus. Yet obviously the older Catton was a man of some wis dom and sardonic humor. Once, after working unsuccessfully against a county election proposition allowing the sale of liquor, he was asked how he felt. "I feel like Lazarus," he said. Like Lazarus? Yes: "According to the Bible, Lazarus was licked by dogs...
Come back he did. On a March afternoon in 1970, he strode resolutely across the stage of the Dom Sindikata Theater in Belgrade, sat down behind two ranks of white chessmen, reached across the table and shook hands with former World Champion Petrosian, shoved the king's pawn two squares forward, punched the button on the dual-faced time clock, pulled a Parker Jotter from inside his black and white checked Hong Kong suit, scribbled the notation PK4 on his score sheet and dug in. Nearly five hours and 39 moves later, Petrosian surveyed the shattered remains of his Caro...