NEWS & VIEWS
A Journal Dies
One of the historic journals of American Catholicism passes from the scene with its December issue. Joining Ave Maria, Mes-senger of the Sacred Heart, Extension and other...
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CORRESPONDENCE
Saigon Regime
Salem, Ore.
To the Editors: It may be true that many people in South Vietnam who were members of the Third Force have been sympathetic to the NLF, but what about those...
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ANTI-ZIONISM/ANTI-SEMITISM
The unfortunate deed is done. The General Assembly of the United Nations has voted 72 to 35, with 32 abstentions, in favor of the Arab-promoted resolution that...
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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...
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QUINLAN DECISION
PETER STEINFELS
THE drama, the publicity, the sad-ness of the Karen Quinlan case, the unsophisticated nobility of her parents, the gravity of the issues under consideration, all,...
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DEATH ON DEMAND
PATRICK F. and CAROL ALTEKRUSE BERGER
The complexity of the Quinlan case overwhelms traditional thinking
There is a theory, current in pro-life circles, that there is a "domino"...
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A TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY
THOMAS A. SHANNON
The technological imperative in the Quinlan case
Much more than the fictional dictatorship of the computer "Hal" in the movie 2001, the trial of Karen...
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THE SCREEN
Where drama brings the pimple of life to a head, comedy pops it. The technique of the one is to concentrate our attention, the technique of the other is to dissipate it. Nowhere are these...
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THE STAGE
Robert Patrick is one of the most prolific of the off-off-Broadway playwrights, but unlike Sam Shepard, say, or Lanford Wilson, he has been unable-at least, until Kennedy's Children-to...
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