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...increasingly tense political climate of Nicaragua, however, it is becoming more difficult to say what that role should be. Some Catholics urge the Cardinal to try harder to heal the Nicaraguan church's internal rift, which in turn might lessen tensions with the government. Others advise him to speak out against repression even more forcefully. Says Activist Exile Baltodano: "The government of Nicaragua is still sensitive to international pressure." Considering the irreconcilable forces at play, continued confrontation between Obando and the Sandinistas seems virtually inevitable...
...document," said Boff, who teaches at a seminary in Petropolis. He believes that the lifting of sanctions demonstrated a new Vatican attitude of openness and "confidence in the (Brazilian) bishops," two-thirds of whom side with some form of liberation theology. Nonetheless, Rome's action has not eliminated the rift between Boff and conservatives in the hierarchy. Moreover, it is still uncertain whether Rome will require Boff to retract some of the arguments in his troublesome book Church: Charism and Power (Crossroad), which described the relation between the hierarchy and laity in terms of class struggle...
...rift opened Feb. 24, when Martin and Seger pressed the board to vote on a proposal to cut the discount rate, the interest that the Federal Reserve charges member banks for loans, from 7.5% to 7%. Volcker urged the board to postpone the cut because he was trying to persuade other industrial countries to drop their interest rates first. He feared that if American rates fell too fast, foreign investors would pull money out of the U.S. and send the dollar into a free fall...
...were singing at their reunion concert in London. There was a subsequent record of the concert as well as a companion television special. PBS did a documentary history of the brothers, and the pair released EB '84, an album that brought them smartly up to date. Perhaps because their rift had been so long and so deep, or maybe just because rock exists in a state of perpetual flux, the reunion had a tentative, tenuous quality, as if the brothers were not only testing audiences but trying each other on for size. No small part of the emotional weight...
INTELLECTUALS PREOCCUPIED with the Black-Jewish rift may soon have another conflict for their discourse--the developing tensions between Blacks and Asian-Americans...