NEWS AND VIEWS • • • • • • • • • The 36 South West Africans on trial for their lives in Pretoria, South Africa, are a small group of hundreds in the territory arrested and detained over the past...
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CORRESPONDENCE • • • • • • • • • Vietnam "Dialogue" University City, Mo. To the Editors: I should like to comment briefly on William V. Shannon's article, "Still Time for Politics," in your issue...
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THE LAST MODERATE After the news of Robert McNamara's forthcoming departure to the nether outpost of the World Bank, it was anyone's guess in Washington's rumor-laden atmosphere what would follow....
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can dream—the school as the ladder of success—but it has been harder to convince the experts, the social scientists and professional educators who tend to view reality through the peephole of their...
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE LIBERALS' WAR Senator Robert Kennedy's declaration that the "whole moral position" of the United States in Vietnam has shifted since his brother was President may prove a...
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LETTER FROM AN EDITOR A reply to William V. Shannon • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PETER STEINFELS Pleasant surprise. My airmail copy of Commonweal is in the mailbox. Back upstairs for a...
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What price peace? A THEOLOGY OF CONFLICT • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • JOHN J. LALLY "Do not imagine that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have come to bring a sword, not peace."...
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THE STAGE Aleksei Arbuzov's "The Promise" is a boulevard play. It makes little difference whether the thoroughfare in question is a Parisian grand boulevard; New York's Broadway, that boulevard of...
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THE SCREEN I wish "How I Won the War" were as good as producer-director Richard Lester's intentions in making this anti-war-film film. Telling the rambling story of likable, young, very naive and...
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JAMES CARROLL SOON AFTER DARK Headlights clang my shadow Along some high spiked fence. It stays behind without me Like a too heavy stick When a boy is running home. Commonweal:...
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BOOKS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Pity the poor dragon Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled JOSEPH BUTTINGER Praeger, $18.50 MORTIMER GRAVES This 1,346 page, two-volume work is advertised by...
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