Vatican backs struggle against tyranny with limits on politics
The Vatican endorsed civil disobedience against tyrants while warning clergy away from political meddling and Marxist influence. A 59 page doc, Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation, advocates nonviolence except as a last resort, and guides bishops and laity in pursuing freedom without endorsing violence.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
John
Paul II
Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith
Weinberger urges Japan to join space defense program
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger urged Japan to participate in the Reagan space based defense project while stressing no pressure to decide quickly. He told Prime Minister Nakasone participation would be up to the Japanese government. Meanwhile Peru reports quake kills five in Cuzco. In Lima, a strong quake damaged adobe homes, killing five and injuring 50. In New Delhi, Sikh extremists killed six police officers at a Punjab courthouse and freed three prisoners. In Taegu, tens of thousands protested for constitutional change.
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Tokyo
Caspar Weinberger
Japan
Weinberger
Defense Department
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Peru
Lima
Cuzco
New Delhi
India
Punjab
S.C. Aggarwal
Jullundur
Nine sect members charged over child beating in New York
Police arrested nine members of the Black Hebrew Israelites sect on charges of coercion and endangering welfare after allegations of systematic abuse of children sent to beg on city streets. Five children were removed from two temple residences and six more were released after a predawn raid. Parents of some children were among those arrested. the abuse allegedly emerged after two brothers aged 8 and 13 fled the community.
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New York
Tom McCarthy
Queens
John J. Santucci
McCarthy
Benson warns faithful as Zion faces trials at conference
In Salt Lake City Ezra Taft Benson spoke at the Mormon Church's 156th Annual General Conference identifying issues in Zion and urging humility and morality. The address follows five months after the death of Spencer Kimball, Benson's predecessor. In Washington the FBI reported 79 U.S. law enforcement officers were slain in the line of duty last year, including Enrique Camarena Salazar, with 1985 murders seven higher than 1984.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Mormon Church
Zion
Benson
Spencer Kimball
Washington
Enrique Camarena Salazar
Mexico
U.S
FBI
Ex-wife hostage situation at Texas convenience store
In Euless, Texas, Malone Mataele, 27, seized his ex-wife Lane Mataele at a local convenience store and wounded a police officer who responded to a silent alarm. Negotiators planned to wait. Mataele fired at a rear door but no injuries were reported.
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Texas
T.C. Free
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Lane Mataele
Vati Katoa
Mataele
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Tonga
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New Zealand
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Katoa
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