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WASHINGTON REPORT WATERGATE AMD RELATED MATTERS Some, but not all, of the President's Men tried to put him back together again. A few did it because they believed for a long time that he was...

WASHINGTON REPORT: A Deserved Veto (April 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT A DESERVED VETO Jerry Ford vetoes a lot of bills sent him by the Congress, where there are more Democrats than there are his fellow Republicans. More than four-dozen vetoes are...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Unequal Treatment of Unequals (April 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT UNEQUAL TREATMENT OF UNEQUALS Harold Laski, writer of the "grammar of politics" for use by the British Labor Party, repeatedly pointed dot in his day that governments respond to...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Political Winds from the Right (March 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT POLITICAL WINDS FROM THE RIGHT The month of March isn't yet behind us and the Democratic and Republican presidential nominating conventions won't take place for another four and...

WASHINGTON REPORT: 'Darkness at Noon' (March 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT DARKNESS AT NOON Not in the ominous sense that Arthur Koestler used the phrase, but, nevertheless, this year's presidential campaign is being reported with more heat than light....

WASHINGTON REPORT: 'Tyranny of the Incumbency' (February 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT 'TYRANNY OF THE INCUMBENCY' The state of the Congress, like the state of the Nation, draws concern and prescriptions these days. But not any or all proposed remedies are helpful....

WASHINGTON REPORT: Politics and Politicians (February 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT' POLITICS AND POLRICMMS Politicians are in that category of persons whom we can't live with, but, in a representative democracy, we can't live without. Most of them, when they're...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Point and Counterpoint (January 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT POINT AMD COUNTERPOINT A Spring of new beginnings for the Congress, forecast in recent years by its friends, has not yet bloomed. Reform husbandry has been practiced with some...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Not Who, But What (January 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT NOT WHO, BUT WHAT The road to the White House is paved with good intentions. This presidential year is no exception. The Republicans will be offered a choice of a non-elected...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Here We Go Again (January 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT HERE WE GO AGAIN Martial bugles are sounding once again from the command posts in the Executive Branch. This time, the country to be "saved" is newly independent Angola, formerly...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Are We Any Different?: (December 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT ARE WE ANY DIFFERENT? It's scary, this recent interim report of a Senate select committee investigating the deeds and misdeeds of our Government's intelligence-gathering organs....

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Ship of State: (December 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE SHIP OF STATE The President reshuffled his advisors in mid-November -not quite the same thing as assembling a new "team" as cliche-prone commentators would have it. Defense...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Shadow of '76 (November 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE SHADOW OF '76 Our Town is rehearsing for next year's presidential election. The other day, Senator Humphrey characterized President Ford as a "happy Hoover." The most...

WASHINGTON REPORT: School Busing-A Detour (October 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT SCHOOL BUSING-A DETOUR A significant shift has developed within the Senate in its attitude toward busing of public school children for purposes of racial integration. For...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Middle East: (October 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE MIDDLE EAST Secretary of State Kissinger has both tenaciously and ingeniously sired an assortment of agreements, the "Sinai Accords," that he states can generate a larger,...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Minutes of the Meeting (September 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT MINUTES OF THE MEETING There is a phase in the passage of a piece of legisla-tion, a bill, that is known in the Congress as a "mark-up." This is an occasion when members of a...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Making Oil Safe for Democracy (September 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT MAKING OIL SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY The 1975-76 Winter is only a couple of leafs of the calendar pad away and the so-called "energy problem" still bedevils the country. Ever since...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Progress and Paralysis: (August 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT PROGRESS AND PARALYSIS The Congress is now standing in its customary recess this month of August. The Gang, that occasionally is showing it can shoot straight, is variously...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Going Home: (August 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT There's all sorts of ways to figure out what's going on politically in the country these days. There're the professional documents of the "think-tanks," such as the Brookings...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Possessed and the Dispossessed: (August 1975)

THE WASINGTON REAPORT THE POSSESSED AND THE DISPOSSESSED Alexander Solzhenitsyn, most famous graduate of the Gulag Archipelago, has been touring the United States in recent weeks. Solzhenitsyn,...

WASHINGTON REPORT: A Liberal George Wallace (July 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT A LIBERAL GEORGE WALLACE The country needed a good five-cent cigar, someone said soothingly back in the days when the country was rattled by bad times. Fifty years or so later,...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Second Shoe: (July 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE SECOND SHOE The New York Times has, in effect, recently apologized to one of the few genuine reporters it has. The reporter is Seymour Hersh, who last December exposed...

WASHINGTON REPORT: 1976 Campaign Year: (June 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT 1976 CAMPAIGN YEAR The "deadline" for filing for the presidential nominations is a long time away, but the political rail-birds are talking as if it were almost post-time....

WASHINGTON REPORT: A Political Ash Wednesday (June 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT A POLITICAL ASH WEDNESDAY There they were on a Wednesday in mid-May applauding President Ford for his overwrought military response to a Cambodian gunboat's seizure of an...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Road to Hell is Paved . . . (May 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED . . . . with good intentions. America meant well, runs the choric refrain of the unrepentant and the repentant-those who were "in" at the takeoff, but...

WASHINGTON REPORT: 'May Day . . . May Day': (May 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT MAY DAY ... MAY DAY' An outer edge of American Empire has been curled back. Our puppet government in Cambodia has fallen. Adjoining South Vietnam is uncongenial to our presence...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The State of Our Disunion: (April 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE STATE OF OUR DISUNION Five-score and a dozen years ago, Lincoln took a train to Gettysburg. He traveled without the platoons of security men and squads of newsmen that mark...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Now Comes the Winter of... (April 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT NOW COMES THE WINTER OF.... As for our decades-old Indochina policy, it's not so much that at long last there's light at the end of the tun- nel, as that the tunnel...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Corruption, Conscience and Government: (March 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT CORRUPTION, CONSCIENCE & GOVERNMENT Corruption in government has many faces. There have been the economic "spectaculars," Credit Mobilier and Teapot Dome, and the big-daddy of...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Death of a Salesman (March 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT DEATH OF A SALESMAN Henry Kissinger has used up his good time, as they say in the barracks. This exceptional and assertive man is large of intellect, his stewardship of foreign...

WASHINGTON REPORT (February 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT SOMEWHERE IN THIS PROMISED LAND The whiff of economic grapeshot is smelled across the land. First-aid stations are being haphazardly set-up for the victims, but no basic surgery...

WASHINGTON REPORT: How Not To Ask questions: (February 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT HOW NOT TO ASK QUESTIONS The inquiry into CIA domestic operations shows signs of growing stale. It is lacking the punch that generates successful investigations such as the...

WASHINGTON REPORT: 'Twas in January in '75 (January 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT TWAS IN JANUARY IN '75 If ever a standard definition of politics as being the art of the possible needed to be proved out, this is the year. At home and abroad, things are...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Watching the Watchdogs: (January 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT WATCHING THE WATCHDOGS "Power is the greatest crime, mitigated only by responsibility." -William Faulkner Institutional disasters, whelped by the Cold War and its attendant...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Ultimate Test for Reformers (January 1975)

WASHINGTON REPORT ULTIMATE TEST FOR REFORMERS Democratic battalions of Congressional and party reformations have gained ground these last several years. Their accomplishments have not been...

Washington: The Winter of Our Discontent (December 1974)

than the exception to UN procedure, historians of tomorrow may well look back on the events of these recent weeks and see them as the critical downward turning point in the life of the world...

Washington Report: Many Happy Returns? (December 1974)

WKSHIHGTOH REPORT MANY HAPPY RETURNS? The voters have taken the Republican party to the woodshed for a thorough political spanking. Fortytwo incumbents in the Congress were defeated in...

Washington Report: Oil for the Senate's Lamps (November 1974)

the Labor Party already had one of their own, they were not going to fall for that kind of offer. In economic terms, then, the real battle was between a minority of monetarists (who were prepared...

Washington Report: Hi'ya, Fella, Yourself (November 1974)

the NAL that "NAL people have moved on to other things and don't need the church anymore," but that doesn't tell the whole story. The NAL was killed by a lack of imagination and the same...

Washington Report: Post-Watergate Reconstruction-Media (October 1974)

1970 election; $350,000 to bribe Chilean legislators to vote against him when the election had to be submitted to Congress, $5 million for later "destabilization" activities, and $1.5 million...

Washington Report: Post-Watergate Reconstruction-II (October 1974)

repentance. And only in repentance can the unity of Christ be found. Only the repentance of the church can give it the power to act in unity and inspire the affluent to share. Thus, the process...

WASHINGTON REPORT:POST-WATERGATE RECONSTRUCTION-l: (September 1974)

now in the Greek Cabinet. (Embassy officials weren't killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Rodger the only ones sluffing off the old politicians. On the day Davies. In some ways the...

WASHINGTON REPORT: 'Sick Transit.': (August 1974)

WASHINGTON REPORT `SICK TRANSIT .... f Nixon has involuntarily resigned the Presidency. His There were...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Notes on the Bicentennial: (July 1974)

broken rural control of the state legislatures, and pro- ist" was lost as they tacked the new First and Greatest tected the individual rights of persons arrested and ac- Commandment over the...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Two's A Party? (June 1974)

mite quixotic. Except, they are anything of the kind. SALT-II negotiations are crucial for their larger objectives, notably the limiting of multiple independently targeted nuclear warheads, and,...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Impeachment-Now More Than Ever (May 1974)

Catholics who do not agree with the Church's stand on this matter (and harried Catholic women who will undergo abortions), but we see no evidence of any significant body of "liberalizing" opinion...

WASHINGTON REPORT: A City of Two Faces (May 1974)

WKSHI3qGTOH REPORT A CITY OF TWO FACES The well-tended neighborhoods of Washington have never seemed more radiant than they do during this Spring of misfortune. The blossoms seem to be...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Money and Politics (May 1974)

barrassed Administration or Foreign Service. But these are days for paradoxes and strange happenings in connection with the American commitment to Vietnam. Thus we witness a bookkeeping...

WASHINGTON REPORT:THE SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS: (April 1974)

But if anything has been retarded in Fresno, it is the growth of academic freedom in institutions like Fresno State. The judge in Mezey's intitial court hearing held that Mezey was legitimately...

WASHINGTON REPORT:Children of Cain?: (April 1974)

WASHINGTON REPORT CHILDREN OF CAIN? As tribal elders dealing with a miscreant, United to a Supreme Court...

WASHINGTON REPORT:Defusing the Presidency: (March 1974)

impose itself on a crisis involving abuse of the office. several Presidential assassinations, and survived. An im- In a word, the country will have reached a sorry point peachment would...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Reality of the Budget: (March 1974)

(who meanwhile had become Patriarch of Jerusalem) Jerusalem. Mrs. Meir reacted with utmost courtesy ("I soon established a friendly modus vivendi and for the certainly did not invade...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Time for Spring Cleaning: (February 1974)

WASHINGTON REPORT TIME TOR SPRING GLEANING The House of Representatives in many ways and at many times has been the legislative branch of the Congress—for better or worse. It's difficult to...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Member of the Senate: (February 1974)

WASHINGTON REPORT MEMBER Or THE SENATE The Senator arose by the dawn's early light. Francis Scott Key, he told himself, saw a lot more promising things at daybreak from that damn ship than I see...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Ring in the Old: (January 1974)

WASHINGTON REPORT RING IN THE OLD The New Year brought with it to Washington more of the old than the new. More irresolutions than resolutions. More heat than light. Even so, the broken...

WASHINGTON REPORT: And to All a Good Night: (January 1974)

WASHINGTON REPORT AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT "// wishes were horses, beggars might ride; if turnips were watches, I'd wear one by my side." Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, goes the hoary...

WASHINGTON REPORT: (December 1973)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE HOT AND THE GOLD OF IT The energy problem, be it defined as a "crisis" or as a temporary short-circuit, illuminates less savory political, structural and psychological...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Wayward Pressmen: (December 1973)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE WAYWARD PRESSMEN Back-scratching is a skill finely developed by practitioners of both the press and politics. In a rough-andtumble political precinct such as...

WASHINGTON REPORT: 'Of Comfort No Man Speak . . .' (November 1973)

WASHINGTON REPORT 'OF COMFORT NO MAN SPEJiK... One read with a chill that the President's military aide, General Haig, instructed a high civilian officer of the Federal Government: "Your...

Sitman, Matthew

Sitman, Nicholas Haggerty, James Lassen, Matthew

Sitman, Philip Gorski, Susan McWilliams, Peter Steinfels, Matthew

Sitman, Robert W. McElroy, John T. McGreevy, Cathleen Kaveny, Matthew

Situ, Xiao

Sivack, Denis

Sivanstrom, Edward E.

SJ, AN ADOPTIVE FATHER, JOHN SNIEGOCK, ROBERT P. HEANEY,MD, LOUIS J. McCABE

SJ, Bryan P. Galligan

SJ, David Neuhaus

SJ, Fernando C. Saldivar

SJ, John J. Piderit