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Articles in Oct 31, 1997 issue of National Catholic Reporter

• U'wa leader defies threat in land fight - Colombian Roberto Cobarita head of the Traditional U'wa Authority was physically attacked as leader of the fight against the Anglo-Dutch Shell Co and Ecopetrol state oil co for tribal cloud rainforest land - Brief
  by Leslie Wirpsa
• League's dark vision divides Catholics: dispute over TV show affords new visibility - Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights led ny CEO William Donohue: TV program, 'Nothing Sacred' - Cover Story
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Chesapeake Bay is in a crucial fight for life - begun in 1983, federal-state-local program to reclaim the bay is still not completed - Environment
  by Arthur Jones
• Veteran of East African missions warns of civil war threat in Kenya - Carroll Houle - Interview
  by Pat Marrin
• Tennis shoes tax stamina for justice - a child denying himself the glory of name brand sneakers for a lesser brand that was probably not made by exploited children, exhibits the true spirit of justice - Brief Article - Column
  by Angela A. Liston
• Papacy too heavy for one man to carry - part 4 - Upon This Rock
  by Giancarlo Zizola
• Justice issues gone from synod agenda - Rome conference, Synod of Bishops for America, will deal with conversion, communion, and solidarity only; includes two related articles on the definition of a synod and a critique of the synod's working document
  by Gary MacEoin
• Mixed U.S. messages for Latin America - as Pres Bill Clinton made his friendly trade mission tour of Latin America, the US stepped up its plans to add more military firepower to brutal counterinsurgency in the drug war there - Editorial - Brief Article
• St. Louis U. showdown could draw in Vatican - high church officials vs. university officials in the selling of Catholic teaching hospital for $3 mil to for-profit Tenet Healthcare Corp
  by Pamela Schaeffer
• Sensitivity and daftness good ways to sainthood: irrationality is, after all, the common ground of faith and madness - Column - Brief Article
  by Jeannette Batz
• Newark has 'no sweat' policy on uniforms - along with an anti-sweatshop curriculum, Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey will no longer buy school uniforms from vendors who produce goods under sweatshop conditions - Brief Article
  by Patricia Lefevre
• League attacks mythical TV windmills - Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights' attack on TV sitcom, 'Nothing Sacred' is self-serving and if the program fails, it will be because of its ratings and not because of the League's censorship - Editorial
• Vatican puts holy sites before people, he says - Elias Chacour, a Melkite priest from Galilee laments the irony of the dwindling number of Palestinian Christians in the major place of Christian shrines - Brief Article
  by Kate Casa
• Critics, sponsors size up 'critical mass,' event brought questions, kudos, hope - public mass led by Catholic women, Oct. 5, 1997 in Oakland, CA
  by Patricia Lefevre
• Overpopulation and what to do about it - the additional one billion people in 2010 will have a better life not through birth control measures, but from the sharing of wealth and the welcoming of each as a wanted part of the human family - Column - Brief A
  by James T. McHugh
• Catholic Workers, talkers celebrate - Marquette Univ. conference to honor Catholic Worker cofounder Dorothy Day - Column
  by Jim O'Grady
• The word became flesh, the digital: as today's body of Christ, the church should embrace technology - technology cuts across miles to shore up relationships - Column - Brief Article
  by James Vanoosting