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...combat the Carlists and other anti-Basque elements in Spain, a 28-year-old Basque attorney, Sabino Arrana, founded the Basque Nationalist Party (BNP) in 1893. During his ten-year fight for the restoration of independence he was jailed innumerable times and after repeated hunger strikes to protest maltreatment, he was weakened to the point of death. He died...
...here because Ford has ignored high unemployment, hunger and racism, and has supported pro-imperialist wars abroad to prop up a tottering economy," Bonnie Bishop, organizer of the November 7 Coalition, which sponsored the rally, said last night...
Rather than having a "genuine hunger for religious and mystical experience," I think the TMers, like the revolutionaries you recently featured, are middle-class kids who are having difficulty with the real world. Upon discovering in the '60s that the ghetto and the war would not be cleaned up at their will, the TMers fled into "cosmic consciousness," and the revolutionaries threw temper tantrums...
...allegedly violating the censorship guidelines, thereby making him the sixth Western correspondent to be ousted since June. Last week authorities cut the telex and telephone wires of Reuters and the Australian Broadcasting Corp., for reporting that political prisoners at Delhi's Tihar jail had rioted and staged a hunger strike...
Vivid if not yet widely shared causes go neglected but beckon urgently again: hunger, political reform, environmental issues, inequalities and injustices, economic traumas. The "decline of absolutes" itself is often merely the result of pluralism. "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a pluralistic land?" asked Ethicist Paul Ramsey. Pluralism, the sense that "any number can play," whether in religion or ways of life, will not go away. Father John Courtney Murray called it "the human condition." Every day in every way we are aware that "your" and "my" absolutes sometimes clash. Antiabortionists and pro-abortionists...