NEWS & VIEWS Caldera's Caldron Yet another Latin American nation has peeled its eye for progressives (i.e., "trouble-makers") among the Catholic clergy-Venezuela. A Belgian priest, Father...
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CORRESPONDENCE Prisoners of War Ridgewood, N. J. To the Editors: There are those who, as they are entitled to do, raise the question "Why now?" to President Nixon's call for a cease-fire. The...
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A POLITICS OF FEAR It did not receive the attention it deserved, but John Lindsay's Council of Churches speech in New York indicting the Nixon Administration for seeding the clouds of "suspicion...
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American Peaceniks, 150 Years Ago Who in this country's past first spoke out for conscientious objection to all war and for refusal, under any terms, "to support the cause of war and bloodshed"?...
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CHANGING YOUR SPOTS PETER STEINFELS NO, THE campaign was not all a waste. It produced, for example, the following statement from one gubernatorial candidate: "I worked for a long time to get to...
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THE LORD OF THE GHETTOS THE GOD WHO ASKED PEOPLE TO CROSS RIVERS AND DESERTS ROBERT COLES ERE briefly, soon enough gone, we who are fairly well-off and consider ourselves well-educated ask why...
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UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY Celebrations and symptoms at the United Nations BETTY PILKINGTON To borrow from diplomacy's own dictionary, the errors in the planning and execution of the General Assembly's...
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HOLLYWOOD'S ANGELS THE SCREEN Talk about ignorant. Ignorant is the word for these Hollywood motorcycle flicks. Take The Wild One, which was made in '53. That was Hollywood's debut on the open...
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BOOKS Religion as 'symbol system' and factor of the culture Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World ROBERT N. BELLAH Harper & Row, $7.95 EUGENE FONTINELL However...
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