NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Living Like Damocles In military parlance, "broken arrow" is the term for a military accident involving a nuclear weapon. The Pentagon has acknowledged 11 such accidents, although...
...Watching One's Tongue Look for the World Council of Churches to strike the sexist language from its constitution...
...nuclear weapons and to weapons-grade fissionable material...
...5. Greenland Air Crash Scatters Plutonium...
...Christians for Socialism attribute to the Marxist method a scientific rigor in its analysis of the capitalist system and in its proposals for construction of a more just and humane society," Vatican Radio said...
...Secondly, the use of male pronouns . . . reflects the powerlessness of the very women who have heeded Christ's call to freedom and make up a large portion of most congregations...
...Officials had expected as many as 350,000...
...On June 7, 1960, a fire at McGuire Air Force Base led to a series of shattering explosions and the destruction of one of 56 nuclear-armed Bomarc missiles...
...3. Bomarc Missiles Burned in Fire...
...One farmhouse was obliterated...
...Chrlttians/Soeiallgm The Vatican is training its sights on "Christians for Socialism," the socio-political movement that originated in Latin America and is spreading to other continents [News & Views, 1/17/71...
...salvation from sin with temporal progress...
...On the latter point, he estimates that about 120,-000 persons - including NATO allies, security guards, scientists at weapons labs, shipyard and arsenal workers-have access to the 30,-000 U.S...
...There would be no loss in national security, he comments, but rather "a net gain in security as the chances decrease for accidents, for theft, and for unauthorized use of the weapons...
...tactical weapons be brought home and most of them retired...
...Schneider presents these details in arguing that most U.S...
...charity with class struggle...
...The WCC executive committee will formally recommend the action at the Fifth Assembly scheduled for Nairobi Nov...
...and, on the other, a prehensile corpus of explanations incited by art's ipseity...
...23-Dec...
...4. 24-Megaton Bomb Safety Devices Sprung...
...i Some 160,-000 persons attended the April 19 bicentennial observances in Concord and Lexington featuring President Ford...
...The executive committee is also asking a group of language experts to draw up guidelines for eliminating sexist language from WCC speeches and publications...
...God's saving history with profane history...
...Firstly, women have learned that the 'brotherhood' within the Church really is a brotherhood where women are often excluded from the decision-making process and from ordained ministry...
...What happens if someone in a crucial position goes haywire...
...Christians for Socialism would demur on that...
...A young Vietnamese named Nguyen Ai Quac wrote to Secretary of State Robert Lansing on June 18, 1919: "We count on your great kindness to honor our appeal by your support...
...Since the victory of the Allies, all subject peoples are frantic with hope at the prospect of an era of right and justice, which should begin for them...
...On Jan...
...On a Clear Day . . . "As interpretability becomes more important than historicity, and the prey is relinquished for the shadow, art-objects seem to split into, on the one hand, a gegen-stana, the artifact as indeterminable, mere ob-stance of the interpreting mind...
...They see their movement as an organized effort to bear witness and live the Christian life in a struggle for socialism as a way of liberating people from economic slavery...
...Nguyen Ai Quac is known to history as Ho Chi Minh...
...But the scientific basis of this method is not recognized even by many Communist scholars...
...Five of the six interlocking safety devices were set off by the fall...
...The high explosive components of all four nuclear weapons aboard detonated producing a plutonium-contaminated area of at least 300-400 feet wide and 2,200 feet long...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...The conventional explosive "trigger" of the nuclear bomb detonated leaving a crater 75 feet wide and 35 feet deep...
...A single switch prevented the bomb from exploding, an explosion which would have been over 1,800 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb...
...Radioactive leakage and conventional explosions occurred in the area...
...The church becomes confused with the world...
...The Pentagon has acknowledged 11 such accidents, although little is known publicly about six of them...
...Vatican Radio recently zeroed in on the ideological and "pseudo-theological" positions of the movement in Italy, saying they are weighted by the fundamental error of opting for Marxism as...
...JOHN DEEDYstory as Ho Chi Minh...
...Schneider notes that recently 3,647 persons with access to nuclear weapons were removed from their jobs during a single year for such reasons as mental illness, alcoholism and drug abuse...
...Barry Schneider capsulizes the other five in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: 1. Atrcrash over Palo-mares, Spain...
...a method of "interpretation" and "change" of social reality...
...While no nuclear explosion occurred there was a small amount of radioactive leakage creating a temporary health hazard...
...In 1961 a near catastrophe occurred at Goldsboro, N. C, when a B-52 bomber had to jettison a 24-megaton bomb...
...21, 1968 a B-52 attempting an emergency landing at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland, crashed and burned on the ice of North Star Bay...
...On March 11, 1958 a B-47 bomber accidently dropped a nuclear weapon in the megaton range over Mars Bluff, South Carolina...
...Geoffrey H. Hartman The Fate of Reading, U. of Chicago Press Odd* and End* -How goes the Bicentenary (cont...
...The language reform is expected to reach symbols, images and references associated with God...
...Sample changes: substitution of "moderator" for "chairman," "people" for "men," and alternative wording for "brotherhood...
...Luckily no nuclear radiation leakage was detected, no nuclear explosion occurred and no one was killed...
...The committee's decision followed receipt of a paper which stated: 'The argument that words such as brotherhood or fellowship include the whole community, male and female, is no longer acceptable to many women...
...The sum of the Christians-for-Socialism movement is confusion, in Vatican Radio's opinion...
...Furthermore, the record shows that where the method has been applied, it has not brought about better results than those obtained under the capitalist system...
...On Jan 17, 1966 an American B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 refueling tanker causing the deaths of five crewmen and the dropping of 4 hydrogen bombs which were recovered after an intensive ground and sea search...
...2. Bomb Accidentally Dropped 'over South Carolina...
Vol. 102 • May 1975 • No. 5
