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...If we are in the kind of The long-range problem is different and even more difficult...
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...his essay is an example of its own we are less aware that soaring prices for our grains and soybeans threaten thesis...
...For the first time working for justice for the developing nations, in interthere is a growing awareness that the earth's riches are national bodies like the United Nations but very parnot infinite, that progress and increasing abundance are ticularly in matters like our own trade and tariff policies not inevitable, that a fair sharing of what is available is too...
...a Northern Ireland nation short of one million tons of fertilizer will suffer a loss of ten times that amount in grain production...
...379 Offensive Defense HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS: Selected Responses: 381 ELI WIESEL'S SONG: LOST & FOUND AGAIN: Washington, D.C...
...It has long been clear that countries which include something like two out of every an individualistic morality is too narrow...
...EDITORIALS: 371 PENTECOSTALS AND NORTHERN IRELAND: John Cooney 372 Fa1iCE WORLD HUNGER: THE FOOD CRISIS: Arthur Simon 374 WORLD HUNGER: FEEDING THE UNFED: Martin M. McLaughlin 376 VERSE: Charles Edward Eaton 380 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...There can be some disagreement about what is ROSEMARY RVETHER happening in countries like Niger, Volta and Ethiopia but only to a limited Lost Innocence extent: should those who will starve be numbered in the millions or "only" Green Bay, Wisc...
...For annually on lawns and golf courses-fertilizer that could the movement, which is considered by its followers to be spell the difference between life and death elsewhere the main spiritual regeneration movement of the twenin the world...
...Robert McAfee Brown 384 To the Editors: One of the most annoy- BOOKS: Carlos Baker, John N. Kotre 388 ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover: Susan Abbott/Off Our Backs/LNS ing aspects of too many Catholic "defenders of the faith" (and one which, JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant more than any other tendency, tends to COLIN L. WESTERBECK...
...in the hundreds of thousands...
...On the order for many years, but today the discussion takes national level, the United States must take the lead in place in a radically changed climate...
...At the recent UN session on that I would wish that the answer were raw materials and development, Algeria's President Houari Boumediene 'yes.' But, finally, James Gaffney atwas only the first to call on the developing nations to wrest control of their tacks the conclusion of my remarks resources from foreign domination...
...In an age of national and world widely held view when he said: "The two superpowers are the biggest disaster on many fronts, to write a international exploiters and oppressors of today...
...The The spiritual diaspora of the neo-pentecostal moveglobe's basic ability to produce the critically short chem- ment has now made itself manifest in Ireland...
...The central Northern Ireland...
...James Gaffney's reply except biweekly Christmas-New Year's and June to mid-September...
...I don't see how any group that does that can be serious come, but it is understandable, nonetheless...
...This is not the kind of talk people in the U.S...
...tressing affair...
...One-sided (Continued on page 390) tariff and price policies enabled us to grow fat on the needs of the world's Commonweal: 371 poor, as we profited from an international buyer's market cussion of these issues, and there are heartening signs in raw materials-a state of affairs which put the less that the nation's churches and synagogues will join in developed countries at our mercy...
...Norman guides to faith and morals today...
...JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry make me give up such discussions) is BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin the excessive rancor of their replies, EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager the need to attack one's person and COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts...
...The significance of are moral ones...
...Foreign $17...
...The spirit ical fertilizer must therefore be expanded...
...What is needed is a shortage forced us to recognize that we are not omni- change in personal and national life-styles, which is why potent...
...However my remarks were intended as a E. Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, estimates that as many as 20 challenge, not a dismissal, of that million people may die in various parts of the world next year because of school...
...the unwillingness to deal with the ob- Second class postage paid at New York...
...America is rich, but the oil tions from all over the country...
...Today that situation is emphasizing this need for ethical choices, as evidenced changing radically, and considerations of pragmatic self- recently by the valuable Aspen Consultation on Global interest as well as moral values demand the creation of Justice, convoked by the Overseas Development Couna system which takes into account the basic interde- cil, which drew religious leaders of various denominapendence of all nations...
...It is a development of some significance three millions tons of chemical fertilizer now spread in an assessment of the neo-pentecostal movement...
...The world is critically 000009*000000* short of chemical fertilizers, and poorer countries have had to cut back on their imports because of scarcity and Pentecostals and quadrupled prices...
...Advocating nationalization of resources while ignoring their context...
...Enlightened statesmen have equally obvious that those who teach social morality talked of the need for such an improved international must emphasize the concept of global justice...
...Individuals cannot in good but the point is clear: the notion of a completely self- conscience consume, consume, consume in the world's sufficient America is illusory...
...5] is a dis- much more remains to be done, as Arthur Simon points out in his article...
...most affluent country without regard to the specter of What is needed is a more equitable world economic starvation abroad...
...In the same true peace tomorrow-a work for which development way, how can the U.S.S.R...
...Given our well publicized countries like the United States bought cheap and sold dear...
...there are steps we can be contemporary Christianity's greatest sectarian scar: take, other courses of action we can follow...
...crop shortages...
...As both contributors to this most of it inefficiently used to fatten meat-producing issue emphasize, we must labor not only to feed the animals, when one-fifth of that amount would constitute hungry right now but also to achieve global justice and an adequate diet in most parts of the world...
...It is incredible to believe that the Western To the Editors: Irving Louis Horowitz' nations will sit by and let this happen...
...fact we must remember is that the world's resources are This encounter has been noted by many of the advolimited, and the decisions on how they should be used cates of the movement in Ireland...
...US and Canada: $15 a year...
...jective content...
...Americans "apocalyptic" moral crisis he suggests, are conscious of how oil prices have gone up, because these have hurt us...
...piece on Watergate [Apr...
...A beginning of help has been made...
...Oil, tin, bauxite, mercury, chromium-the list Bread for the World is calling on Americans to observe of things we must import could be extended at length, three meatless days a week...
...World food stocks are World Bank additional funds to provide development now at their lowest level in 20 years...
...Once more we are asked to face other countries with starvation...
...Nobel Laureate Dr...
...tieth century, is now coming face to face with what may People do not need to starve...
...Single copies SOc It should be accepted that if I suspect that the answer to my three ques- •••••••••••••• tions is 'No,' this suspicion is based on what I regard as broad a, d valid GLOBAL JUSTICE sampling of such climates...
...In a world of plentiful supply of raw materials, industrialized innocence...
...namely, and strict control of sales abroad, he said: "The raw-material-producing my dismay at the docetic and in-house countries insist on being masters in their own houses...
...His sentiments were character of the Notre Dame stateechoed by many, and the Chinese representative undoubtedly reflected a ment...
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...The immediate crisis is underlined by what is taking place on the continent of Africa...
...There is a long- and a short-term problem...
...For decades countries like the United the loss of American innocence, no less States have profited from what was and is an essentially unjust international than a "two hundred-year-old age of social order...
...Indeed James Yes, Virginia, there is a class war, this one not within one society but Gaffney's own letter is the best proof between rich nations and poor ones-a fact made more plain by a reading of that...
...This scarcity currently constitutes the greatest single obstacle to increased food production...
...It should also have been clear of the two articles on the subject in this issue...
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...welhighly shocking...
...American grain when most of it was also to be used in the wasteful production of meat...
...today it is three persons in the world...
...Given this situa- loans for poor countries, a potentially disastrous move tion, intensified class warfare between nations is inevita- lamented elsewhere in these pages by both Arthur Simon ble unless justice is achieved for the developing countries, and Martin M. McLaughlin...
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...It is all very well for Secretary of State Kissinger to the only answer...
...In the mean- of Notre Dame and Duquesne Universities has spread time, though, as Senator Hubert H. Humphrey has sug- to battle-scarred Belfast, expanding Dublin and selfgested, could not the United States give up using the reliant Cork...
...With the world desperately short of caution the poor nations to avoid threats, but if the rich grain, for instance, how long can we Americans justify nations do not open their eyes and act justly, more than a per capita consumption of 2000 pounds of grain a year, threats will be the result...
...they also cannot ignore what their system, one that takes into account the harsh global facts elected representatives do to make the problem worse, as of expanding population, poverty, food shortages and when the House of Representatives recently denied the the scarcity of natural resources...
...ment [letter: May 24] is a case in point...
...Fortunately, there are signs of an in- the confrontation was stressed recently at an ecumenical creasing national awareness of our need for moral dis- meeting in Drogheda by an Anglican rector, the Rev12 July 1974: 372...
...justify its huge purchase of is simply another name...
...The producers and the statement over several years on the misconsumers of oil, minerals and food are eyeball-to-eyeball as the developing sion of the Catholic university which is so oblivious to the world we live in is nations threaten to form cartels like that in oil if necessary to secure justice from the rich nations...
Vol. 100 • July 1974 • No. 16
