NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Straight Face, Forked Tongue Men talk about Bible miracles, said Thoreau, because there is no miracle in their lives. He should be around now. Last spring, when there was no more...
...Walden will take .450...
...Young Kennedy, 14, expressed seeming displeasure at curious bystanders by sticking out his tongue at them...
...He and his sister, 17, carried comic books as they entered a waiting limousine...
...JOHN DEEDYtered a waiting limousine...
...He died last month in Santa Monica of cancer...
...Meanwhile, there's inflation...
...like Ernie Pyle...
...Of these priests, 42 went to jail for varying terms for refusing to pay the fines...
...SOS For JES Add to the list of publications in distress the scholarly quarterly, Journal of Ecumenical Studies...
...20, 1974...
...Another of Commonweal's valued contributors died the other day: Harry W. Flan-nery...
...Publisher: Center for Migration Studies...
...Example: American Catholicism and European Immigrants, by Richard M. Linkh...
...there's not much left to trim- "only bone and sinew," says editor Leonard Swidler...
...How to neutralize a potentially useful sourcebook: provide text, illustrations, tables, bibliography, but don't bother to index the end result...
...If Wasserman's construct is true, it means, says he, that "we have been standing in line for our gas while clients such as South Vietnam, Cambodia and Taiwan got theirs first-and, most outrageously, got it free, out of our pockets, and even developed black-market caches to fuel their rich tyrants...
...According to CBS, he kept a straight face...
...We also know that we have at least 34 military missions in client nations throughout the world with which we are undertaking to maintain the status quo despite the wishes or desires of the people in those nations...
...Government can demand anything of almost anyone, but cannot get from the oil companies an inventory of their worldwide supplies...
...Harry Flannery returned shortly afterwards to the U.S., aged and unwell...
...The headline told the story, and its point was further substantiated this past week by some information in Madrid's Vida Nueva, a Catholic weekly...
...Odds and Ends -How goes the pollution fight...
...Flannery was a Commonweal regular back in the late-'40s, early-'50s, writing of places and people he knew intimately - like California...
...It was originally priced at $7.50...
...His last Commonweal piece was written from there, and appeared Dec...
...It was a typical Flannery article, concerned with personal freedoms and social justice in transitional Spain...
...R.I.P...
...Wasserman proposes a hollow-leg theory: "We know that our military has 2,500 foreign bases...
...civilian consumption...
...Vida Nueva reported that since 1972, some 108 Catholic priests have been fined a total of $198,125 for preaching sermons considered "subversive" by the Franco government...
...Also helpful, he feels, would be letters to Temple president Marvin Wachman (Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., 19122), telling him why it is important for JES to continue...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...The find became known as the Great Nixon Bookkeeping Miracle...
...A rough calculation of the oil needs of these client nations yields a figure in the neighborhood of 30 percent of U.S...
...Where then, asks Gilbert Wasserman in a letter to the New York Times, is the drain in our oil that makes the oil industry claim a shortage of about 30 percent...
...The Oil Drain Oil Journal published figures recently showing that continental oil production and continental oil consumption in the United States were only 5 percent apart...
...In any case, Wasserman contends it is high time that the veil of secrecy surrounding the inventories of oil being dispensed by our corporations-some of whom enjoy vast government subsidies by reason of tax allowances -be removed...
...Second that motion...
...Eschewing talk of miracles, President Ford, a more modest man, said he deplored "sloppy bookkeeping...
...JES has been informed by Temple University, its underwriter, that unless it can project a nearly zero deficit budget for 1975-76 (to be submitted this month), the university will not publish the Journal after 1975...
...Most often this means fueling a military and civilian sector of a military dictatorship completely at our expense, die entire information being classified and thus kept from the American public...
...Flannery was a large personality then, carrying the fame of several good books and the successorship to William L. Shirer in the CBS Berlin post...
...This is most probably the cause of our abnormal shortage...
...The year before it was $768,100...
...That last Flannery piece, incidentally, was titled, "Freedoms in Spain: Making No Haste Slowly...
...JES has reduced its annual deficit by 70 percent over a three-year, period...
...Last spring, when there was no more legally appropriated money to keep the Thieu regime propped up in South Vietnam through fiscal '74, $266 million was "found" in an old ledger...
...After stints with the Los Angeles Examiner and the AFL-CIO as a news coordinator, Flannery retired to Spain...
...Postscript to Camelot, courtesy AP from Leukas, Greece: "Caroline Kennedy and her brother, John Jr., arrived today at this island near Skorpios [for the funeral of Aristotle Onassis...
...Signs-of-the-Times-De-partment: On the bargain table in Walden Book Shop, McLean, Va: White House Sermons, with an introduction by Richard M. Nixon...
...It cannot be that such figures do not exist...
...Swidler is appealing for early subscription renewals, more gift subscriptions, and donations of money to JES...
...This spring, when there was no more legally appropriated money to keep the Lon Nol regime propped up in Cambodia, lo, a stray $21.5 million was "found" in a reaudit of last fiscal year...
...Last year the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection collected $184,027 in air-pollution penalties...
...By the bye, it is curious that the U.S...
...He was 74...
Vol. 102 • April 1975 • No. 2
