Magic from below
Amidei, Nancy
the two recent common-sensical newspaper columns by Arch- On October 12, it will be ten years since Joao Bosco Burnier bishop Rembert G. Weakland have, without touching at all ...
...when Ninoy was in a been touted by the newly returned democratic government in prison cell...
...serve, serve, serve...
...night at National Airport, where half of every plane-load Resende is a marked man, as was his friend, Father Josimo seemed to be returned volunteers (RPCVs), mass hugging Moraes Tovares...
...18 in the Cook Islands), and go to Solzhenitsyn's second Gulag...
...The Financial Mail, South Africa's experience in our lives...
...Shriver's children are starting a "Peace knows...
...He spoke of the moral vision that peaceful resolution of South Africa's problems...
...That's something worth holding onto...
...Africa's first black prime minister...
...Now, as percent of the population in Brazil still owns 41 percent of the president, she is "striving to promote peace in the cities and land, while an estimated ten million peasants are landless...
...The two had gone to protest the torture of two women abducted that day MAGIC FROM BELOW by the police because of the women's association with land ANNIVERSARY FOR AN IDEAL reform...
...According to the Journal, 1 peace by standing face to face with troops and tanks...
...The story was told by an eyewitness, Dom Pedro Casaldaliga...
...But in the end they will have little choice won the respect and appreciation of former volunteers for her but to make radical changes if they wish to keep the economy spirited defense of the Peace Corps in politically difficult of that bountiful country from becoming a wasteland...
...And like concerted campaign to promote Buthelezi...
...Although land reform has found "in a climate of persecution...
...work at home as you have abroad...
...She came in to chants of woman, 1, Rigoberta Menchii (Schocken), Rigoberta Menchd "Cor-ee, Cor-ee...
...sees Buthelezi (and Botha) at the center of a "new covenant" On Sunday we marched from the Lincoln Memorial to an that would bring the divided people of the land of apartheid ecumenical (Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist) memo- together...
...We do not have the details from hearsay, nor from reports assembled gradually like The Peace Corps ghosts from out of the deep forests...
...In the last year, Father Friday morning, with RPCVs from the Philippines massed Resende reports, forty-seven people advocating such reform squarely in front, over 4,000 former volunteers heard Presihave been murdered in his diocese alone...
...Be describes Buthelezi as a man who decries violence and, unlike servants of peace, he said...
...ReaReturned volunteers have established Sargent Shriver gan, you hear him denounce the African National Congress awards for RPCVs who continue to work in the spirit of the (ANC) as a Communist front, and praise nonviolent leaders he Peace Corps' ideals...
...It is those who intervene to save others, American Christians for perhaps too easy to demand that religious leaders have the the Abolition of Torture (6117 Germantown Avenue, insight and forthrightness of prophets, but no one will go out Philadelphia, Pa., 19144) and Amnesty International have set into the desert to see reeds shaken by the wind...
...These were not just some middle-aged people who shared the same school, but Americans of all ages, races, political persuasions, and creeds, who shared a common belief in the ability of any individual to make a difference, and THE BUTHELEZI FACTOR the obligation of every individual to try...
...gathered," are at least willing to work for some common Among South African Blacks, however, Buthelezi has beideals...
...to see how their own people and the rest thing go...
...Walter Wilcauses ordinary people to do extraordinary deeds, and his liams, who writes for the Heritage Foundation's syndicate, words ran like an electric current through the crowd...
...come increasingly discredited...
...Burkina Fasso, not Upper Volta...
...To elevate the role of upon the Hunthausen case, injected some hope into a void...
...aside the day to remember Father Burnier...
...Human Events, the other unquantifiable, inexplicable miracles in times past, he conservative weekly, reports enthusiastically that "what sets spoke of the "miracle" of the Peace Corps' continued exis- him apart from the black militants is that he hopes for a tence and force for good...
...She spoke of the personal peace and quiet she lost when political prisoners are not the problem...
...and her mother...
...A study conducted by the opposition Commonweal: 518...
...Besides, it was terrific just to be surrounded by thousands person-one-vote basis...
...Above all else," says the Financial of people who, if not "the finest human beings ever Mail, "he is an unabashed free marketeer...
...she left to the sound of thunderous recounts the 1979 torture and death of her brother, her father, applause...
...We may not have TRIBALISM OR NATIONAL UNITY joined up thinking conscious thoughts of waging peace, but when RPCV-turned state legislator David Magnani asked us to As THE WINDS of change blow in the direction of some think, just for a minute, what it would mean if the Peace Corps sort of showdown in South Africa, the prospect of a traded budgets with the Pentagon, the audience roared its negotiated compromise settlement there looms on the approval...
...That night there was a concert at the Kennedy sonable man, committed to nonviolence and compromise...
...It "works its dent's refusal to impose economic sanctions...
...Casaldaliga was with Burnier at the police station...
...magic from below, not from above," he reminded us, deliver- Among some segments of the American media there is a ing on "the promise, not the power, of America...
...times...
...While we have the strength, his witness must be followed in our own way...
...And Thursday, September 18, in a under the sponsorship of Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao big tent on the Mall just below the nation's Capitol, that's Paulo and soon to be available in English from Vintage under pretty much how it seemed...
...By Saturday it was already clear that this was more than South Africa your average reunion...
...He was, in fact, his bishop...
...horizon...
...the past two years...
...Some give their blood and some give everyone present was on first-name terms with people from their strength...
...Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, cornServe your families, serve your cities, your neighbors, the mands a strong constituency...
...We had, as someone remarked, brought the world home...
...That the Pastoral Commission for Land in Conceicao do Araguaia...
...the bishop of the twenty years ago, the Peace Corps' Twenty-fifth Antwo women...
...The Reverend Richard Neuhaus nation's poor...
...see who was grayer or fatter, who'd stayed married to whom, Brasil: Nunca Mais, a best-seller last year in Brazil, written and what we all had done...
...There are even signs that the future-planners in PreAnd then there was Sarge, that human magnum of cham- toria's government sense this...
...But the bond between Who would be a likely candidate for the post of South Sargent Shriver and the volunteers is something special...
...Tovares was gunned down in a nearby town broke out...
...countryside," between economic and political groups, and In the remarkable first-person story of a Guatemalan Indian within the international community...
...The problem is the her husband entered politics, of the inner, religious peace she iniquitous distribution of wealth...
...the bishop of the police...
...After her brother's (formal and informal) of foreign affairs, international food, death, Menchif s father told her: "I am a Christian, and the drink, music and dance, plans for a Peace Corps Foundation, duty of a Christian is to fight all the injustices committed and ways for former volunteers to stay involved...
...Since 1979, yet tries where 120,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served (e.g., another volume could be published, as massive and detailed as 6,810 in the Philippines...
...For the RPCVs, that was just the beginning...
...Serembam (Malaysia) to Chikal (Niger) to Asuncion 10 October 1986: 517 (Paraguay...
...More recently, she said, her country had found Brazil, progress is deadly slow...
...One is Mangosuthu (Gatsha) Buthelezi, who heads Worker Program" in his name for former volunteers wishing KwaZulu and the KwaZulu-based Inkatha movement...
...At the police station he niversary sounded like a way to check out old friends to saw Burnier suddenly slapped, then shot in the head...
...This anniversary gathering proved Wall Street Journal, has picked Buthelezi as "man of the special because it reminded us of values we share, beliefs we year" for his moderate stance and his willingness to join in a still cherish about our responsibilities in the global commu- government of national reconciliation on other than a onenity...
...Everywhere, people stood around talking, reluctant to Time reports that in a recent poll, South African whites chose let go...
...It is likely that they will stall for pagne, whose energy, effervescence, and willingness to take a time, trying out possible psychological tactics (such as "We chance on a lot of untried, eager Americans made the whole will fight to the end...
...at a cordial meeting with Reagan at the White House in When Shriver, "the Peace Corps' only draftee," spoke, it February 1985, the Zulu chief expressed strong approval of was of the early days and the many funny things along the way...
...Casaldaliga was not merely Burn- S INCE I finished a Peace Corps tour in Nigeria nearly ier's assistant...
...Center...
...In fact, to spend a year at the Kennedy Center on Ethics...
...We learned we could find our the title Torture in Brazil, analyzes the political imprisonment groups under balloons with the names of the ninety-two counof 7,367 Brazilians between 1964 and 1979...
...Best of all, against our people...
...on May 10 for espousing land reform...
...Surveys show that among NANCY AMIDEI Blacks living around Durban, Johannesburg, and Pretoria (Nancy Amidei frequently reports on poverty, hunger, and support for the Zulu chief and Inkatha have plummeted during human services issues in these pages...
...So while we can, we must give our strength...
...But his witness must not only be remembered and honored...
...Reagan's "constructive engagement" policy and the presiBut most of all he spoke of the value of service...
...the two recent common-sensical newspaper columns by Arch- On October 12, it will be ten years since Joao Bosco Burnier bishop Rembert G. Weakland have, without touching at all gave both his strength and his blood...
...It is 'KUNCA MATS' only by concerted, effective action that torture can finally be Ten years ago October 12, Father Joao Bosco Burnier, a abolished...
...Loret Ruppe, current head of the Peace Corps, has of the world respond...
...It is the sort of book that might shake even Everyday there were "country updates" and discussions those in air-conditioned offices and homes...
...She was applauded many times...
...Some years ago, dent Corazon Aquino praise the Peace Corps, and talk of Cardinal Ams told church leaders in Paraguay that, "The peace...
...dians and small homesteaders in Mato Grosso, Brazil, was shot to death by military police...
...Nunca Mais...
...The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, and rial service at Arlington Cemetery for the 198 volunteers who several liberal newspapers have portrayed Buthelezi as a readied overseas...
...Their screams had been heard outside the police station and reported to Burnier and Casaldaliga who were preparing catechumens for baptism...
...Buthelezi - even above P. W. Botha - as the most popular It isn't just that Peace Corps was a special, even pivotal South African leader...
...Like Peace...
...On August 28 of this year, parties at "our" embassies (unless we had served in Iran), Roger Cohen of the Wall Street Journal reported on the work although we had to know the new names of countries: Sri of Ricardo Resende, a thirty-four-year-old priest who heads Lanka, not Ceylon...
...May we one day be able finally to say fifty-nine-year-old Jesuit priest working with the forest In- it: "Never again...
...If you listen to Mr...
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