NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Abolishing Hunger Bread for the World, a Christian citizens' movement in the U.S. concerned about hunger worldwide, is sponsoring an "offering of letters" in the churches this...
...Senate Concurrent Resolution 66-would not be legally binding on the country, but in the opinion of its promoters it does cut new ground and lay the foundation for a long-range program...
...and that development assistance and food assistance, including assistance given through private, voluntary agencies, increase over a period of years until such assistance has reached the target of one percent of our total national production (GNP...
...Volume 1, Number 1, a 64-page issue, itemizes objectives...
...They believe passage of the resolution could be a major turning point for the nation...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...and "(2) This policy become a fundamental point of reference in the formation of legislation and administrative decisions in areas such as trade, assistance, monetary reform, military spending and all other matters that bear on hunger...
...Religious Studies Review will deal with, works of major significance, often from more than one angle of vision...
...the section, it was noted, that follows the Crucifixion...
...The subscription is $6 a year for members of societies belonging to the Council on the Study of Religion...
...Managing editor Harold Remus views the new journal not as rivaling, but as complementing existing publications...
...1) Every person in this country and throughout the world has the right to food- the right to a nutritionally adequate diet-and that this right is henceforth to be recognized as a cornerstone of U.S...
...Subscription monies and advertising revenues will constitute the basic income...
...Keeping a Stiff Elbow Is anyone holding the line against the sexual revolution...
...policy" the right of every person in the world to a nutritionally adequate diet...
...A New Review It is pleasant to be able to break into the litany of expiring religious journals with some news about one being born...
...The lead piece in the inaugural issue is John F. Wilson's review of the reviews of Sydney Ahlstrom's A Religious History of the American People - what John Leonard calls "Mac-donaldizing...
...Debuting this fall is the Religious Studies Review, a quarterly devoted solely to reviewing and bibliography in the field of religion and related disciplines...
...The resolution - House Concurrent Resolution 393...
...policy...
...It is being published by the Council on the Study of Religion...
...RSR also offers brief, critical assessments of new titles, and will seek to contribute to interdisciplinary study and communication by publishing annually the list of dissertations completed within the previous year, as compiled by the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion...
...The resolution in Congress has four resolves, as follows: "That it is the sense of the Senate/House that...
...The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States...
...Asked the New York Times: Is a handshake O.K...
...10 for others, including institutions...
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...concerned about hunger worldwide, is sponsoring an "offering of letters" in the churches this November in support of a resolution recently introduced in the Congress which would fix as a "cornerstone of U.S...
...Address is: Council on the Study of Religion, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5...
...nor should any advertisement contain any demonstration of affection in such a way as to suggest sexual involvement between those portrayed...
...Odds and Ends -The way of bishops and Buckleys: In Portland, Me., the retired Bishop of West Missouri acted against his own resolution at the annual meeting of the Episcopal House of Bishops because, he said, it "doesn't have the chance of a snowball in a hot place...
...and "(4) Concerning global hunger this country increase its assistance for self-help development among the world's poorest people, especially in countries most seriously affected by hunger, with particular emphasis on increasing food production among the rural poor...
...Denominational response to date indicates that a substantive result is likely...
...It recently reaffirmed its 1936 stand that ads should not include "copy or illustrations which are sexually titillating or which imply any link between drinking and sexual success...
...The basic strategy is to invite Christians to "contribute" a letter(s) as an act of worship, "an offering of their citizenship," on one of the last three Sundays of November...
...Bread for the World seeks to put together an avalanche of letters-not form letters, but personal letters, addressed and stamped-that will impress on Congress the popular concern felt for the estimated 460 million people, almost half of them children, who suffer from acute malnutrition around the globe, and for the millions more who are seriously deficient of proteins or other essential nutrients...
...If there is sufficient interest and accurate data can be obtained, RSR may likewise publish titles of dissertations in progress...
...in New York City, Bill Buckley's radio station returned to its old letters (WNCN) and classical music (after a nine-month rock affair) with the Resurrection section of the Bach B Minor Mass...
...and "(3) Concerning hunger in the United States we seek to enroll on food assistance programs all who are in need, to improve those programs to insure that recipients receive an adequate diet, and to attain full employment and a floor of economic decency for everyone...
Vol. 102 • October 1975 • No. 16
