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...But Archbishop Laghi met on that day with Rabbi Shlomo Goren and not with the "Israeli government" and it was not "the most unpleasant job of his life...
...George W. Webber may have been responsible for the March 19 tragedy at Cai Lay that claimed 32 lives and 50 injured, because he failed to telephone Vietcong and North Vietnamese representatives during his January visit to Vietnam and use his "great influence" to secure a ban on weapons of terror--which is a little like saying that Daniel Berrigan, David Dellinger or some other antiwar figure is responsible for the great length of the war because at some time one of them neglected to phone Ho Chi Minh and get him to call off the fighting...
...It is well known that the (Continued on page 222) NEWS & VIEWS: 202 CORRESPONDENCE: 203 EDITORIALS: 203 WASHINGTON REPORT: Money and Politics: Sisyphus 204 SHALL WE SOON PRAISE PODHORETZ?: Michael Novak 207 THE MISSOURI SYNOD: STILL THE CHURCH MILITANT: Margaret M. Carlan 208 COMMUNITY, SI--INDEPENDENCE, NO: Jordan Bishop 212 VERSE: Nancy G. Westerfield 20G THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
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...If Calley deserves administrative reprieve, even if only partial, the more so do conscientious resisters merit amnesty...
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...The struggle against resentment and recrimination consumes energies...
...Webber, whose article on his Vietnam trip appeared in the March 15 Commonweal, easily defended himself against the Ambassador's irresponsible charges...
...consumption of petroleum products has risen from 11 million barrels/day in 1963 to 17 million barrels/ day in 1973, prior to the current shortage...
...oil consumption within its production capacity for crude oil...
...Above all, his clear penetration of Puritan cant, which has unleashed upon him a righteousness as old as Salem, singularly exposed the mixed motives of New York literary life today...
...Lies, exaggerations, innuendoes, uninvited expressions of contempt, the pure vitriol of hatred--these result in ostracism, laceration, inner shrinking...
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...Although Hawkes writes a maze-like work about maze-like reality, he surely does not remain a passive creator...
...Hawkes writes a philosophical thriller, a dream work which, like the white whale, eludes our rational comprehension...
...A great many persons who began the sixties as conservatives, or as apolitical, became "politicized," "radicalized," or had their "consciousness raised...
...Besides Washington politics, there is also literary politics...
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...And not all have yet conceded publicly that more often than not Podhoretz was right, substantially...
...A meeting on January 2 indeed took place...
...Podhoretz already has his gloves on for the next round, and some will hate to see him win again...
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...Unfortunately, however, his article on "Vatican and Israel" [March 8] ended with a questionable conclusion because it was, in my opinion, based on several erroneous facts...
...Some events of recent days, however, dramatize that, though the troops may be home from that unhappy country, Vietnam is still very much a part of the American experience and still working its distortions on elementary logic and the American sense of justice...
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...Lichten shows greater confidence in the Vatican's political realism than I have, especially where its, real or presumed, rights are involved...
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...ten Kortenaar either followed the information given by a notoriously unreliable Italian weekly or received his own from the same source...
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...Whatever interpretation we put upon them, the Vatican efforts regarding Jerusalem certainly show this day is still very far off...
...Many of these nouveaux gauches hated their past and had to expel immense self-hate: Podhoretz, refusing to undergo conversion, bore more than his share from those trying late to be lefter than he...
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...Specifically, again, there were the charges leveled by the American Ambassador in Saigon against the president of New York Theological Seminary, an incident demonstrating how close to the surface still lies the proclivity of people in official government position to libel the peace community and its members...
...1 must therefore happily confess to being that most unreliable of humans, a political dreamer...
...1 may add that during my own countless meetings with Catholic officials in Rome they also stressed the importance of a guaranteed free access to the Holy Places rather than internationalization of the city...
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...EDMUND G. TRUNK Rome & Israel To the Editors: Henry ten Kortenaar is an experienced journalist and his correspondence from Rome (where both of us live) deserves a careful attention...
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...They discussed the situation of tb~ Israeli war prisoners in Syria and the future of Jerusalem on a totally different level than internationalizationyes or internationalization-no...
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...But it seems that, in time, Podhoretz will receive a more just and appreciative evaluation of his talent, his insights, and his courage...
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...ten Kortenaar's assertion, the Vatican is not advocating or asking for the internationalization of the city of Jerusalem...
...2, "he carried out the instruction to explain the Vatican position to the Israeli government" should be discarded as unfounded rumors published in Italy by the abovementioned magazine...
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...For all these reasons, such "sensational" news stories as those cited in the article--that during the audience with Emperor Haile Selassie and others, the Pope allegedly revealed his plan for the internationalization of Jerusalem, or that Archbishop Pio Laghi, the Apostolic Delegate in Jerusalem "had the most unpleasant job of his life," when on Jan...
...I could cite many Christian and secular publications in this connection, including the Religious News Service, and the New York Times, but in the context of this letter I prefer to quote from Jewish sources...
...William Calley, so that now he has but six months more to serve for his murder of "not less than 22" Vietnamese civilians at My Lai...
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...Shemarjahu Talmon of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem reporting about the meeting with the Catholic leadership (the writer of this letter attended the same conference) said: "As far as Jerusalem is concerned, we got the impression that the Vatican had in fact dropped the idea of internationalization of the city," and Michael Pragai, director of church relations for Israel's foreign ministry, after a series of consultations at the Vatican, recently stated: "The Vatican's position on Jerusalem is to our liking . . . Internationalization (the administration of Jerusalem by an international body) has been abandoned by the Vatican...
...This fact was refreshing at a time when many of Israel's alleged friends had turned their backs on their former ally...
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...What we can do now is at least state the facts as they are in order not to obscure the situation even further and watch carefully the developments, as they come...
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...Undoubtedly the future of Jerusalem will still be a subject of many statements and many controversies...
...One cannot help feeling outraged when witnessing the penurious nature of many people to whom a few more dollars matter more than the exhilaration of being exposed to the thrust of unorthodox ideas...
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...The mystery is thus greater than "simple" murder--it is the ungraspable nature of reality...
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...This third or fourth measure of juridical generosity can perhaps be defended on the grounds that Calley is a scapegoat for the system and for officers much higher than himself, who though they did not pull the trigger, set the policy and participated in a cover-up...
...Nevertheless, justice is travestied when the generosity shown Calley is not matched by a kindred consideration for those young Americans who refused for conscience's sake to do any killing and who accordingly went underground or took up residence in other countries...
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