EDITORIALS
Americans of the rural South. Or by the Mexican Americans in for life in San Quentin prison. As they dread our tests. I say this to underscore a shortcoming in Mare Lappe's...
...in the absence of the latter, the impulse of smaller powers to develop nuclear capacities of their own is certain to quicken...
...will seek--and gain--many co-signators to a pact of theirs, but is that success enough...
...Failing to view individual intelligence as developing and bearing fruit within and in terms of a specific culture invariably results in the inflation of our white-school-power I.Q...
...Harrington has noted, what Congress traditionally receives by way of background to decisionmaking is "the sanitized, pre-packaged version of the military side of weapons programs that the Pentagon wants it to hear...
...the United States firming up a decision to switch to silo-killing capability, a decision with certain human considerations to commend it (it being less repugnant, obviously, to attack nuclear silos than population centers) but one that radically alters "strategic doctrine" by shifting policy from one of deterrence to first-strike capability...
...The technology is to be used specifically for peaceful purposes but the risk remains of plutonium by-products being diverted to make bombs...
...The two major political parties, in Congress assembled, do not now meet this test...
...Manufacture them they may without convincing demonstration at last on the part of the superpowers that a commitment exists to restraint, control, and eventual disarmament...
...Reference is to developments in the nuclear arms field: India detonating its first atomic bomb...
...If India feels the need and has the capacity for manufacturing an atomic bomb, why not also Japan, West Germany, Israel, Brazil and now Egypt...
...The amendment was strenuously opposed by the Nixon Administration and the Pentagon, and went down to defeat by a House vote of 239-152...
...To the Editors: Ronaid Christ introduces his recent interview with Ernesto Cardenai [Apr...
...As a result, the Congress and its committees often resemble commodity exchanges at their speculative worst...
...It's not clear whether politicallyminded Americans, as a consequence, will shut up shop or work harder...
...This condition doesn't preclude any change...
...A responsive party system demonstrates an ability, through its elected agents, to translate attainable programs into law...
...Conventional geography better serves the end of understanding Cardenal's perception of his own artistic contribution and the wish he expressed in the interview, "that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry...
...THOMAS A. CAFFREY Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital Nicaraguan Poetry Davis, Calif...
...Johnson freed blockaded legislation, in the fields of civil rights and education...
...It is dif~eult to exaggerate the importance of his country and his national identity for this poet, whose very breadth of view and range of competence are sustained by his intense con(Continued on page 366) CORRESPONDENCE: 34tt EDITORIALS: 34'/' WAgR|NGTON REPORT: Two's A Party?: Sisyphus 3411 JEWISH AGENDA, CATHOLIC AGENDA: Michael Novak 351 WARREN BURGER: THE IDEOLOGUE AS REFORMER: /sidore Silver 352 DIVORCE, SI~PAPA, NO: Henry ten Kortenaar 356 HOSPITALS AS NEIGRRORS: Peter Freiberg 3511 VERSE: James Neylon 356...
...Nevertheless, it would be the narrow person indeed who begrudged him any solid agreements that would lessen nuclear peril in the world: In related context, it is good to learn that the proposal is to be revived whereby impact reports would be provided Congress on all new strategic arms systems...
...Yet as events in these areas dominate the energies of statesmen and politicians, and absorb the interest of the public, a series of occurrences is taking place elsewhere with ominous implications for the future, whatever the resolution of some more visible problems...
...The minimum-wage is raised, but there's no response to social aggravations generated by an inequitable distribution of wealth...
...People might easily wonder what can be hoped by way of nuclear controls and disarmament, given SALT-II's limited scope and its bilateral character...
...Hence, Congress constantly risks voting seemingly one-dimensional programs---e.g., multiple re-entry warheads--that turn out to have severe destabilizing effects internationally...
...I say this to underscore a shortcoming in Mare Lappe's otherwise thoroughgoing critique of the methodological and moral irresponsibility of hereditarians like Shockley and Jensen ["Censoring the Hereditarians," April 26...
...Russia and the U.S...
...Foreign $17...
...THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...Russia and the U.S...
...are not The World, nor are their respective blocs The World's only camps...
...India's surreptitious adaptation of Canada's technological assistance stands here as warning...
...and Russia seem to acquire a kind of esoteric quality...
...The insufficiency of parties has launched new political relief missions to rescue the suffering public...
...US and Canada...
...The nuclear arms race, in a word, is rushing ahead pell-mell on so many fronts and in so many directions that negotiations like SALT-II involving the U.S...
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...Margaret Diorio 357 THE STAGE: Gerald Weales 360...
...Without the former, the arms race graduates to a scary and perhaps inescapable plateau...
...They are, in fact, only two members of a "nuclear club" that becomes less exclusive by the year...
...15 a year...
...Or perhaps he is enacting a good-natured parody on a cruel stereotype, the provincial U.S...
...It is reason, in sum, to hope for the most successful of summits...
...An insidious form of imperialism...
...Single copies 50c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CONTAINING NUCLEAR PERIL Attention is riveted these days on happenings in the Middle East and in Washington, and understandably so...
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...Except, they are anything of the kind...
...Meanwhile, the U.S...
...score into a trans-cultural criterion of intellectual capacity that judges whomever it happens to touch...
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...professor who never could get all that geography south of the border straight...
...John Gardner walked out of the Secretaryship of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and founded "Common Cause," whose 325,000 members are forcing federal and state politicians to cleanse the dirt from the political-financing system...
...France following through on yet another sequence of above-ground atomic-bomb tests in the Pacific...
...This benighted condition has been sporadically disguised--such as by the heroic intervention of Lyndon "Johnson when he unexpectedly became President...
...Under the circumstances, it is possible to view the negotiations that may reach a climax with President Nixon's visit this month to Moscow as a Commonweal: 347 mite quixotic...
...Ralph Nader appeared from nowhere and shamed giant industrial corporations--and the Congress--into efforts to stop producing harmful commodities, be they automobiles or drugs...
...Enormous stakes--international, national and personal--are bound up in Arab-Israeli peace, the Nixon-Kissinger missions and the impeachment proceedings...
...Forthcoming issues will be dated July 12, July 26, August 9, August 23, September 6 and September 20...
...will bind China or stay France's atomic instincts...
...If so, the gesture seems unnecessary in a time when even the Encyclopaedia Britannica has stopped calling Ruben Dario a South American...
...The Harrington amendment would not be an absolute failsafe against destabilizing authorizations, but it could help signal awareness to the implications of some ----or even one...
...The editor of Review thus removes Granada, Nicaragua, from the shores of Cocibolca, in a fancied transcontinental relocation which presumably symbolizes his wish to better inter-American relations by bringing us all closer together...
...Nor have they for some time...
...Michael Harrington of Massachusetts, and emerged in April as an amendment to a funding bill for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
...The proposal is the brainchild of Rep...
...WASHINGTON REPORT TWO'S A PARTY...
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...However, stalemated politics reasserted itself--masquerading itself as "consensus politics...
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...The Harrington amendment remains, however, a worthwhile measure, basically for the insurance it would provide that arms-control considerations are brought to bear on weapons decisions, something totally lacking at the moment...
...Social security benefits are increased, but there's no capacity to provide a decent program of health care...
...enters into controversial pacts spreading nuclear technology through the Middle East...
...From then on we will resume our normal weekly publishing schedule...
...26] by referring to the Nicaraguan poet as a native of South America...
...SALT-II negotiations are crucial for their larger objectives, notably the limiting of multiple independently targeted nuclear warheads, and, no less importantly, for their potential psychological impact...
...No accord by Russia and the U.S...
...The condition is further aggravated by "Watergate," which has done for politics what Spiro Agnew has done for Hellenic culture...
...This is an advantage not to be cast aside...
...at least one might so presume from past experience...
...Time is running out in this regard...
...One might be legitimately concerned that President Nixon will overbargain in Moscow in order to achieve effects in Washington...
...Students took to the streets to protest the lethal results of a hitherto sacrosanct "bipartisan" foreign policy guarded for two decades by the Foreign Affairs Council crowd of Lovett, McCoy, etc., in New York City...
...As Mr...
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