NEWS & VIEWS Same Old Gas Remember the Nixon announcement of last November that the U.S. is getting out of the biological warfare game, except for the herbicides in Vietnam and a small program of...
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CORRESPONDENCE WASP Slings Upper Montolair, N.J. To the Editor: I never thought I would have to lecture such a sensitive magazine as Commonweal about ethnic slurs, but here goes. Many Anglo-Saxons...
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EDITORIALS NO GOING BACK Elsewhere in this issue Ramsdell Gurney Jr. presents a summary of the revisionist view of relations between the United States and the USSR and the development of the Cold...
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Catholics and Communists in Hong Kong WORKING GROUP 7 Hong Kong is a museum piece, a working model of colonialism in a post-colonial world. Inside the glass case of apparent prosperity, millions...
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THE MYTH OF THE RAD DECADE PETER STEINFELS THE MYTH of the Red Decade has recently been laid to rest. Not that everyone had ever fully accepted the myth, the notion that almost all liberals in...
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SOVIET MOTIVES AND STATESIDE SUSPICIONS The origins of the Cold War, revisionist history and the ABM RAMSDELL GURNEY, JR. The development of Soviet-American relations following World War II has...
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IS CATCH-22 MALE CHAUVINIST? Man's inhumanity to man -or to woman? PHYLLIS HOLZSCHLAG The film Catch-22 has on the whole evoked favorable reactions from its audience. The book Catch-22 has evoked...
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INDIA'S CHEKHOV THE SCREEN Satyajit Ray has, as of my writing, directed seventeen films, some half-dozen of which have been commercially released in the United States. His first film, Father...
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BOOKS Can reason rule on an impassioned subject? Abortion: Law, Choice and morality DANIEL CALLAHAN Macmillan, $14.95 DAVID LITTLE According to one common opinion, it is no good trying to...
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