EDITORIALS
CORRESPONDENCE G.O.P. Prospects Washington, D.C. To the Editors: The Commonweal editorial "Republican Prospects" [Mar. 18] was a thoughtful presentation and I am grateful for the encouraging...
...There have been a few background stories on Patricia's early life and interviews with her fianc6, who is now being grilled by the FBI, but we still know very little about them...
...And now there is grim speculation that the whole affair will end more tragically than originally intended and that a lot of people will be left with painful questions about how they behaved from the beginning...
...There was never a person"wneither the beggar on the road to Jericho, nor the children, nor the 26 April 1974:180...
...Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...visible each day is the astonishing sight of leaders of social activism joining hands to implement plans for a food giveaway made under a threat of death for Patricia Hearst...
...If so, then this kidnapping has demonstrated more suffering than that of the worried parents...
...Continued on page 197) NEWS & VIEWS: 178 CORRESPONDENCE: 170 EDITORIALS: 170 PERSISTERS FOR PEACE: Michael True 180 THE WAY WE JOIN TOGETHER: Abigail McCarthy 182 CENSORING TIE HEREDITAIRIANS: Marc Lapp~ 183 ON EUROPE'S BOTTOM RUNG: Jonathan Power 185 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...One of the complaints of the Catholic Biblical Association was that we had published articles criticizing some biblical scholars but that our readers did not have access to the views of the CBA...
...There seems to be public sympathy for the idea that one of the ways to rectify the inequitable distribution of wealth is to coerce a millionaire to distribute steak and potatoes to "the people...
...Jack London included it in his socialistic apocalyptic novel The Iron Heel in 1906, and the New York Post reporters have discovered a recent pornographic novel whose plot parallels the Hearst case much too closely...
...For the second straight yearwlast spring at Waterbury (Conn...
...Ironically, the original William Randolph Hearst built a newspaper chain and a fortune by exploiting what was called the "Gee-whiz" emotion, by feeding the public appetite for prolonged, sensational accounts of kidnappings and murders...
...Both local and national TV have carried stories on the mythical "army" and the "People in Need" food program with very little hard critical information...
...From a modest beginning ("It all started when we puttered around four years ago," according to Sister Elizabeth Hillman, R.C...
...Our offer had no strings...
...The "people" lined up for blocks...
...In seizing the daughter of a Hearst the kidnappers have seized the media: Hearst papers, the AP and UPI have printed the propaganda of the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army all over the country and the news--perhaps understandablywhas been managed in the interests of the Hearst family...
...Joseph in Holyoke, Massachusetts--over 300 members and fellow travelers of the Catholic Peace Fellowship gathered together to rededicate themselves to various issues of peace and justice, to celebrate their association with one another, and to learn about the political concerns that have become a part of their religious lives in recent years...
...Perhaps...
...It is only recently that some journalists are suggesting in print what many have suspected from the beginning: that Miss Hearst may be an accomplice in her own "kidnapping...
...In his opening address, Gumbleton called attention to various episodes that indicated Christ's deep respect for the individual human life, to enemy as well as friend...
...On one level, the Hearst kidnapping and the extortion of millions of dollars worth of "free food" is a weird reminder that class antagonism is still very much alive in what is sometimes considered an egalitarian society...
...To the Editors: Writing in Correspondence, March 1 issue, Father Joseph Jensen said I refused to publish his "open letter" in the National Catholic Register...
...Meanwhile, it seems hard to believe that the FBI, and perhaps the press, with all their sources of information, do not know where she is...
...Why...
...The Washington Star-News reported: "Quite calmly, San Francisco has accepted the SLA and its demands...
...We promised not to edit, shorten or comment on what they chose to say...
...The seemingly endless reluctance to get all the facts out at once, instead of in painfully extracted installments, is a severe handicap...
...In the Hearst case the press itself seems to have become an instrument in the kidnappers' plot...
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...Single copies $0c: O e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e O CITIZENESS HEARST The abduction of young Patricia Hearst is but one of several hundred domestic and 25 foreign kidnappings of Americans within the last five years...
...Maybe some were "rip-off" artists, typical of those among the rich and poor alike who will seize something for themselves no matter whose suffering is involved...
...Would tens of thousands line up while millions more watched across the nation without protest if the food had been extorted through the kidnapping of a Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy child...
...188 VERSE: Philip Legler 181...
...They were offered absolute control of the material...
...We took this criticism seriously and offered the CBA regular space in our paper to express their views...
...This November's elections will be more difficult, because we have not been able to put Watergate behind us...
...Father Jensen knows very well why his letter was not published and why it is we are uninterested in any letters from him...
...The SLA has released the Patricia Hearst tapes through Paeifica radio station KPFA and other messages through the underground press...
...S14 a year...
...Ernesto Cardenal 100, 101 THE POETRY OF USEFUL PROPHECY: An Interview with Ernesto Cardenal: Ronald Christ 180 EXPOSING PEOPLE, NOT ISSUES: Charles Thomas Samuels 102 BOOKS: John Garvey, Daniel Morrissey 194 ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover: cell division cycle o] yeast...
...CHARLES H. PERCY United States Senator Registered Complaints Huntington, Ind...
...Perhaps one factor is the possibility that Hearst is not one of the most beloved American names...
...Sister Mary Dooley, S.S.J., set the tone for the recent day-long conference in her welcoming address: "We are here," she told representatives of eight states and the District of Columbia, "to reflect upon Christ, who teaches us to be just and to proclaim the good news of justice...
...Catholic High School and this year at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St...
...18] was a thoughtful presentation and I am grateful for the encouraging comments about my position...
...And in calling attention to the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, an educational service conducted by the Catholic members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, speakers made frequent reference to the encyclicals of John XXIII and Paul VI, especially his phrase "peace through justice," and to those Catholics whose daily lives proclaimed "the good news of justice": Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Ammon Hennacy...
...US and Canada...
...We are left to speculate on whether Patricia's emotional alienation from her family was deep enough to dispose her to join with the SLA or whether she is sophisticated enough to feign cooperation to keep herself alive...
...I am convinced that Watergate does not have to mean defeat for the Republican Party in 1976--and apparently some others also feel that way, judging from the list of those who have shown a yen to run...
...THE EDITORS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CPF MEETING PERSISTEBS FOR PEACE If the Catholic peace movement is dispersed and dispirited, as some observers have said, the group assembled on March 23 in western Massachusetts seemed not to have heard the pessimistic news...
...both from Science magazine...
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...Maybe some were hungry and too poor to buy it...
...Today his descendents are victims of a variation of the same mentality---of a plot sprung from sick and violent minds, a distorted paranoid vision that sees a handful of rich and powerful conspirators as responsible for all the ills of society, and that sees a dramatic, staged, highly-publicized event as a means of altering public consciousness...
...the annual meeting of the CPF in New England has become a significant event for a loose coalition of Catholic anti-war people, with the help and resources provided by the American Friends Service Committee and other peace organizations...
...We are pleased to announce a series of columns, beginning this week on page 182, written by Abigail McCarthy, author of Private Faces/Public Places (Doubleday...
...Republican candidates will have to work harder than they have ever worked before to overcome it...
...George V. Higgins, crime novelist and former assistant United States district attorney from Massachusetts, (New York Times, April 14) reasons that it is strange that the culprits took time to pick up her purse on the way and that they took so long in stating their demands...
...Taking as a reference Gordon C. Zahn's article on "The Future of the Catholic Peace Movement" [Commonweal, Dec...
...28, 1973], Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, said that the work of the CPF must be nothing less than the conversion of the Church, including the bishops, to the deeper truths of Christ, to the forgiving, reconciling, and authentic nonviolence of His life and message...
...Commonweal: 179 The kidnapping and "conversion" of a son or daughter of the upper class is a popular revolutionary fantasy...
...page 183: DNA-cellulose chromatography...
...In pursuit of "the third way," neither the way of violence, nor the way of passivity--a negative term, suggesting non-action, according to one speaker--the meeting addressed itself to the question of priorities, particularly during the coming year...
...Yet it is a particularly strange case that raises serious questions about the public reaction to personal tragedy and the manner in which the media perceive, interpret and transmit reality to the nation...
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