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Correspondence Shucks. it was nothing Harrisburg, Pa. To the Editors: I always enjoy each issue of the Commonweal, but I must say that I particularly enjoyed your issue of August 31. The...

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...On the other hand, the Irish have always understood the conflict as political, between themselves and the British, to end partition, and to have the British out of the country...
...To the Editors: Although the Supreme Court's decisions in Bellotti and P arham are contradictory in many ways, as Maurice Ford points out [Aug...
...Illustrations: Page 582: Alovoine, The Citizen, N. Vancouver, Canada...
...Thoughtful chapters by seven authors including Robert Ramseyer, John H. Yodel Richard Showalter, and Ronald J. Sider clarify the content and nature of the gospel...
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...The apparent ambivalence of the Court on where to draw the line in support of parental authority reflects, as Mr...
...And, in fact, the whole issue was just great[ (JUDGE) GENEVIEVE BLATr O.K...
...In Bellotti, the physician may or may not perform an abortion on a minor without parental involvement...
...This classification of the Irish issue is new to the American press where the Irish conflict has been made to appear as a religious war between the two peoples in the North...
...In Parham, psychiatrists have the final say on committing minors to mental institutions...
...III [ [ ./) Herald Press: Radical* Chdstian Uterature Hying In Christian Community by Arthur G. Gish A vision for how a Christian community should live and function...
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...Written for youth and adults, Barbara Smucker has recreated the anarchy, famine, and horrors experienced by Christians during the Russian Revolution...
...Paper, $7.95 At Your Local Bookstore The Tax Dilemma: Praying for Peace, Paying for War by Donald D. Kaufman Explores the direct connection between death and taxes...
...This book will not only challenge readers with Gish's description of radical Christian community, but will also provide practical suggestions for churches interested in more complete commitment to Jesus Christ...
...In the sentence I am explaining how it came about that Charlie Chaplin attended the dress rehearsal of a play of mine, Trial By Fire, and then returned for the opening the following night in Hollywood...
...He recently typed it out and sent it to me...
...Abigail McCarthy's comments on the contributions made by our new Americans was excellent and gives us a lot to think about, too...
...This article defines the Protestants as British and places the conflict in the political arena where it belongs . . . . Yet, unfortunately, Mr...
...To the Editors: Jack Holland's article on the Ulster Defense Association [August 31], is illuminating beyond anything previously told the American public on this issue...
...There stands the spectral image of Nixon as a warning not to overestimate "the intelligence and sound instincts" of the national electorate as I once did of the California electorate...
...Cloth, $8.95 Christ and Violence by Ronald J. Sider Challenging, biblical book which looks to Jesus for an example of how to respond to the violent world in which we live...
...The mere thought of such a possibility is enough to curdle the blood...
...Upon re-reading the sentence I am inclined to agree with the judgment of my learned friend and to feel that it merits printing, not only however because of its merits as a model of literary composition, but because of the frightful image it conjures up of the possibility that Ronald Reagan might actually make it to the White House, as h.e made it to the Governor's Mansion in Sacramento...
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...I Commonweal: 578Correspondence (Continued from page 578) unless they had a much lower opinion of the intelligence and sound instincts of the California electorate than I then possessed...
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...This is the official fine propagated by the British government...
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...31 ], one common element in both was the Court's unannounced support for the good judgment of medical practitioners...
...On an issue for which Britain is totally responsible, the division and partition of Ireland, Britain is doing nothing to end the conflict and appears to be willing to have it continue indefinitely as it is, while Irish people die...
...Holland continues to use the term Protestant tO categorize the group he says calls itself British, and the term Catholic for those who call themselves Irish...
...And as though to remind me of what rare commodities intelligence and sound instinct are, not only among the electo:rate but among those propelled by their votes to high Office, a photogr;iph appeared the other day in the Paris Herald Tribune showing Henry Kissinger, to whom millions of massacred Cambodians are indebted for their tragic fate, entering the chambers of the Senate Foreign Relations'Committee...
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...A sad reminder-t and an explication, at least in part, of why I find it relatively easy to resist the pleas of my friends to return to the United States after ten years abroad...
...He is of course smiling, as he is always smiling when cameras are...
...If Britain pushed for this idea among responsible leaders in the North, and gave her support to it, proposing to withdraw from the island, it could very well be the solution to the Irish problem...
...I am afraid to consult the tea leaves...
...Ford points out, the complaint of many observers (often professionals like lawyers, physicians, and social workers) that many parents do not know or cannot be misted to act in their child's best interest...
...JOHN BRANIGAN Doctors & paronts Hastings'on-Hudson, N.Y...
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...In the background, beaming like school boys, thrilled to be photographed With their hero, the current Sultan of Swat, are two United States Senators whose names, for the sake of their posterity, I leave unmentioned...
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...The Irish view is never heard . . . . A fair solution to the Irish issue, which has been proposed from time to time, and which has been accepted in the Republic of Ireland, but which has had no favorable response in the North, and in Britain, is a federation of the two parts, with autonomy of local government for each part, with a central government for defense and foreign affairs, and the border eliminated...
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...Unfortunately, neither these observers or the Court go on to ask the sobering next question...
...And he so well deserved every word of it...
...I wrote: "He came undoubtedly at the suggestion of Herb Sorrell, head of the Conference of Studio Unions which in 1946-47 had waged an epic, if losing, battle for the survival of democratic trade unionism in Hollywood against the combined power of the major producers allied with the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE), still carrying the rancid odor of its history of control by the Chicago Crime Syndicate, and supported by the Screen Actors' Guild headed by Ronald Reagan and George Murphy whose right-wing orientation was already evident, but whose future, one as Governor the other as Senator of a sovereign state of the Union, not even the most clairvoyant tea leaves could have discerned, (Continued on page 607) ql Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical i..itc~iture, Catholic Periodical Index...
...The British view gives Britain the opportunity of appearing as a benevolent mediator in a sectarian dispute between two peoples whose ideas are of the 17th century . . . . The information which the American media gives the American public through its cofirespondents in London and Belfast, is seen from the British view, and is filtered through the pro-British prejud!ces which American correspondents seem to acquire shortly after they arrive in Britain...
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...Paper, $4.95 Days of Terror by Barbara Smucker Days of peace turn into days of terror when a young boy is caught in the tensions of the Russian Revolution...
...Is there any individual or institution that can discern a child's best interest better than most parents7 The lamentable state of children in foster care system, juvenile homes, and mental hospitals suggests that professionals, if anything, do no better than most parents, and probably worse...
...Index of American Periodical Ve~e, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
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...Traces biblical and historical precedents for war tax resistance and discusses possible responses today...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a bener chance of being published...
...MARGARET O'BRIEN s'rFANFFA~ Editor Hastings Center Reoort California dream Fribourg, Switzerland To the Editors: A learned friend has long admired for its literary qualities a sentem: e which appeared in an article of mine entitled "I Remember Chaplin," published in Commonweal (June 2, 1972...

Vol. 106 • October 1979 • No. 19


 
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