Voices in the night
Palumbo, Gene
country. Stick: freezing the U.S. assets of the Marcos family despite government-controlled media, under threat of violence as investigations of their extent and sources proceed. - ...
...families come to us who are just living in their cars...
...Anecdotes helped provide the full flavor of the com- In Portland, Oregon, where an estimated 3,500 homeless unidades' experience...
...nonetheless, Mrs...
...When the members have had to abandon their homes because of threats National Low-Income Housing Coalition set out to quantify, and attempts on their lives...
...Evilio Javier, who was hunted down, shot, Report from San Salvador and killed, was a long-time opponent of Marcos, yet Marcos spokesmen blamed Communist insurgents for the killing...
...A NEEDLESS SHORTAGE Ortiz is now buried behind the altar at St...
...For the coming Some church officials have said that they see, in the com- fiscal year, 1987, Mr...
...and handicapped, loans for rural housing...
...Democracy and a narrower realously, U.S...
...They said that of the civilians who had been caught in for compromise and an adherence to principle...
...Shultz THE ARCHBISHOP CAME TO LISTEN addresses to Middle Eastern "state-sponsored terrorism...
...Given the the operation, some had been killed, others wounded, and support she was able to mobilize - against formidable odds, many more captured...
...But the Philippines is a nation where Washington's Salvador on the evening of January 26, Archbishop John blessing counts for a lot...
...risk such an implicit endorsement of Quinn had already heard a good deal about the war in the Mrs...
...The U.S...
...Quinn saw something else...
...This was wartime, and the parish priest was government as legitimate, and we are not about to do so in announcing that anyone who didn't want to venture onto the response to a little maneuvering and tinkering...
...can exert any number of more directly athwart the rising aspirations of Filipinos for selfsubtle pressures on the Filipino business community, which is government...
...Pos- STANDING NEAR THE DOOR of St...
...You programs entirely: public housing (now home to about 4 mil28 February 1986: 101...
...On January 20, 1979, as Ortiz was leading a retreat for teenage boys, the police and national guard had stormed the retreat house, battering down the metal gate with an armored car...
...they now belong to comunidades by state, the number of people needing low-cost housing, and that simply bear the name "the exiled...
...Marcos and Company are not necessarily the will learn that the Aquino coalition, too, has its feet of clay, same...
...Mutilated bodies of ten more opposition leaders were reported the following day...
...Public housing recalled six hundred of their members - "martyrs," they call has waiting lists nationwide (e.g., 60,000 just in Miami), and them - who had been murdered in recent years...
...intervention in other parts of the world...
...Last year, at a ceremony housing units, and keep urban areas liveable...
...streets was welcome to spend the night in the church...
...But before delivering his tion of poll watchers, led by Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, talk, he had met and spoken with two peasants who said they actually estimated her share of the vote as between 60 and 70 had just fled a major army operation fifteen miles from the percent, an amazing margin...
...Others at the church would not be sion must be clear and definitive...
...Affordable housing Octavio Ortiz...
...old, catechists and pastoral workers from the war zones, came He tries to negotiate with landlords to keep the families forward to speak to the archbishop...
...Vincent's unidades with much-needed medicine...
...The first is the principled loan programs in view of "chaotic" conditions in the Philip- rejection of any U.S...
...The second injured further by Marcos's burst of campaign spending...
...four times as many people as units...
...Aquino has demonstrated her stature and legitimacy as A second lever is economic...
...What they had in common was membership in names on a waiting list and lived with their in-laws, the comunidades de base - the small, grass-roots Christian many young Americans were buying their own homes, and communities which have played a major role in the awakening many more were becoming renters...
...2 billion for housing, and eliminate many federal housing "They speak," he said, "in the language of Scripture...
...And as the Philippines' our military installations...
...In 1981, munities...
...capital...
...assets of the Marcos family despite government-controlled media, under threat of violence as investigations of their extent and sources proceed...
...Generally, Hornbecker says, the saved the best wine for last...
...Do these suggestions exaggerate American influence...
...In flawless Spanish, he com- volunteers, and up to a thousand occasional volunteers), Prespared the comunidades to the apostolic Christian com- ident Reagan's latest budget proposals spell disaster...
...The priest and four of the boys were murdered...
...Aquino may need a handful more...
...Reagan wants to spend just a little over unidades, a threat to the church...
...He had come to speak polls can never be technically substantiated...
...The peo- AMERICA'S postwar housing boom was long the envy of ple attending were from different parts of the San Salvador Europe...
...national Monetary Fund to refuse further loans to the Philip- There is, of course, another kind of objection to this sort of pines until Marcos is replaced by Mrs...
...Obvi- face an unusual situation...
...sination...
...Marcos has lasted as long as he Quinn of San Francisco was overwhelmed by what he has in part because he enjoyed that blessing...
...The third millions in new loans from commercial banks, banks which is the debater's gambit that critics of Marcos are inconsistent if have recently rescheduled nearly $6 billion in existing Philip- they oppose U.S...
...delega- at a church-sponsored peace forum...
...Vincent de Paul's says, "We've never had so many a year and a half old, "We already have our own oreja...
...One woman drew-sober laughter when can be found in just the "downtown core," Tim Hornbecker of she mentioned that while the community she belongs to is only St...
...We could encourage the Inter- a national leader...
...Much of the low-cost housing bishop Oscar Romero, the comunidades in one parish alone stock in the nation is badly in need of repair...
...Francis church, THE BUDGET SLAMS THE DOOR where Archbishop Quinn had just spent the evening...
...And they added that other civilians were Commonweal: 100 still in the attack zones, surrounded by army troops and des- can see that the word of God is the great source of strength in perate for food and medicine...
...intervention" on behalf of democracy in the Philipa fair election...
...In a sister parish, three young men were found, throats cut, hands bound...
...Francis church in San sibly...
...Meet- is the realpolitik argument that Washington should look only ing IMF conditions is also a prerequisite for hundreds of to the security of its Clark and Subic military bases...
...Mrs...
...Only grave considerations of here, as there are in the matter of sizable loans that Japan is national security justify armed intervention...
...economic and military aid can be held in escrow politick are happily coincident: we can call the Marcos bluff on until Manilla bows to democracy...
...Now that he is had just seen and heard...
...In January, St...
...It was like seeing the pages of the already on the skids, removing Washington's stamp of ap- New Testament come alive again," he said...
...provincial opposition leaders were murdered...
...It had begun with prayers, Scripture readings, and songs...
...For Hornbecker and his staff of three (plus five regular Quinn was the final speaker...
...In the Philippines, we make their lending contingent on a Marcos abdication...
...lots near churches," and coming to St...
...Individual owning a home is beyond the reach of most citizens...
...GENE PALUMBO Salvador...
...That likelihood would be considerably decreased by an official VOICES IN THE NIGHT expression of U.S...
...Public housing (which of the Salvadoran church, and which have sprung up by the began fifty years ago) expanded greatly with the landmark thousands in Latin America in the last fifteen years...
...But the American deci- to go home for the night...
...Vincent's for food, Finally, one of the coordinators announced, "We have clothes, and a place to wash...
...It comes in three versions...
...Housing Act of 1949...
...But all these com- the number of rental units available at a price they can afford, munities are still very much alive, and this night members had they found, in a study released this month, two, three, even come to speak with the archbishop about their lives and work...
...They spoke of aerial bombardments and ground atAquino has displayed a promising mixture of both a capacity tacks...
...Plenty of opportunities for Washington pressure Our own answer must be brief...
...But a few days later, was getting over two hundred calls a day for help...
...We do not recognize this doing the same...
...Even as President Reagan, in a nationally televised should be unmistakably in her camp, not skulking in Goliath's, press conference, was declaring American "neutrality," four and not pretending to stand on the sidelines...
...Not long before, a housed, but apartments are scarce, rents are rising, and a lot of fifteen-member women's delegation had presented their com- people just don't earn very much...
...Two men, each about sixty years families get evicted because they can't keep up with the rent...
...intervention - non-military as well as pines - and the possibility that the nation's economy was military - in the internal politics of other nations...
...The IMF has already delayed action on several pines...
...that marked the opening of a new chapel named after Arch- Now all that has changed...
...Reagan took office, the federal government was and borne the sign of the cross, but had, also experienced joy...
...Perhaps more important,, Mrs...
...Other forms of already hesitant to renew to the Philippines...
...The U.S...
...influence must be judged by their purposes, by the circumexample would strengthen the Japanese and other allies to stances, by the likely consequences...
...Those communities, he said, had suffered greatly when Mr...
...The Philippines could be swept by a wave of "disappearances...
...he only (National Movement for Free Elections) who may face assas- needed one...
...spending about $40 billion for a variety of low-income housing "And I see here among you, in spite of how you have suffered programs: rent supplements, rehabilitation of deteriorating and been persecuted, a joy which is the gift of the Holy housing stock, urban homesteading, housing for the elderly Spirit...
...outrage comparable to those Mr...
...But for those who were deciding whether to accept (Gene Palumbo is a free-lance writer and radio journalist the offer to spend the night at the church, there was more than who reports often from El Salvador for National Public the "regular" war to fear...
...Aquino or the winner of U.S...
...we cannot set our strategic concerns largest trading partner, the U.S...
...But should the U.S...
...Aquino represents a rare quantity: a A third lever involves focusing national and world attention genuinely democratic, moderate force enjoying real popularon the safety of leaders in the Aquino campaign and Namfrel ity...
...Camping (Orejas are the much-feared spies whose tasks include finger- within city limits is illegal, so they're `camping' in the parking ing "subversives" for the death squads...
...the army burst into their village and carried off the medicine...
...In the biblical story, David scooped up five stones...
...A firm U.S...
...Although the press may soon be swinging back increasingly coming to recognize that their own interests and from its present enthusiasm for the underdog, and Americans those of Mr...
...pine debts...
...While Austrian "newlyweds" kept their archdiocese...
...I think it's a clear manifestation of the power of Such major military drives have become more frequent in El God at work in the church...
...their lives...
...Quinn was ready proval may provide the critical shove...
...Cities and towns of every size got help to Members of the comunidades have been among the most upgrade housing codes, increase the number of affordable common targets of the death squads...
...The two parishes had once shared a common pastor - Fr...
...death squads had struck...
...Just that morning, it appeared the Radio...
...Aquino, an untested leader whose claim to victory at the twelve hours he'd been in El Salvador...
Vol. 113 • February 1986 • No. 4
