Religion: Boot Camp for Urbanites

Flowery Cuernavaca. an hour over the mountains from Mexico City, has been called "a sunny place for shady people"; its ravines and ridges sparkle with the swimming pools and haciendas of the international rich, and the campesinos have learned not to be surprised at anything. But the goings-on in a 150-room stone and adobe villa across the way from Barbara Button's $1.5 million place are causing talk. Some say that the place is a nest of Communists, some that it is a training center for an illegal Roman Catholic underground. The Red newspaper,...

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