NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS European Units Three and a half years ago, Western European leaders announced the aims of a European parliament by 1978 -and a common monetary system by no later than 1980. What are...
...By a vote of 22 to 7, the resolution was tabled...
...The defendant was locked in a closet for several weeks and raped repeatedly...
...Members of the Thrift Baptist Church at Paw Creek protested the ad as "blasphemous...
...It was enough to drive some people to drink...
...It is, he says, the unity of a pragmatic commercial community, as well as the moral unity derived from what European civilization has endured in this century...
...Nuns for Patty The Patty Hearst decision has drawn the fire of the National Coalition of American Nuns...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Of greater moment, he concludes, is the question of European-American relations...
...Publishers in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, O., St...
...Margaret Singer, the clinical psychologist attached to the University of California at Berkeley, was not allowed to testify in Patty Hearst's behalf...
...Louis and Detroit followed suit...
...Says Le Monde: "Aeronautics experts are beginning to acknowledge, cautiously, that Concordes are too expensive to buy and run . . . that its range is too limited, its capacity too small, and that it is much too noisy for the comfort of airlines, passengers, or people living near airports...
...that of a federation dominated by West Germany and France...
...of Orland, Calif...
...Three [male] psychologists gave testimony," the newsletter notes, "but no man can know the violence of rape and what its effect is upon women...
...A united Europe has one, and only one, obvious form to take...
...But Franco-German hegemony is not the Europe that the Dutch, Danes, Belgians, and Italians have in mind, to say nothing of the British and Irish (to confine the discussion to the European Economic Community...
...and studies made, the timetables proposed serve as universally acceptable substitutes for action that no one intends to take...
...From a woman's perspective, Patty Hearst's case must be appealed...
...take the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, myrrh, nuts and almonds...
...Now let 'em get after The New Yorker...
...Indeed,, maintains Pfaff, European unification is a diversionary topic...
...What are the chances of these goals or either one materializing...
...The calls regularly heard ior new initiatives, the plans...
...Yet Western Europe today is hardly closer to political unification than it was when the European Coal and Steel Community was established, in 1952, on the initiative of Robert Schuman...
...know that Dr...
...Bob Jones, III, of Bob Jones University said he was "highly incensed...
...As complaints mounted, the Charlotte papers canceled the ad...
...Le Monde titled its report, Concorde: waiting for the inevitable, and accompanied it with the cartoon below...
...The ad was placed by the T. M. Duche Nut Co...
...In a recent issue, it ran an ad featuring a quote from Genesis XLIII, with biblical illustration: And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this...
...The Prisoners of War (POWs) said that they would have done anything out of fear and in defense of their lives...
...Margaret Singer could have given insights which the men could not and did not...
...Only a woman can know and Judge Oliver Carter, who constantly told the jury to use their common sense, should have had that much common sense to Counting Out the Concorde When French and British officials asked for immediate studies on the future of the Concorde, (hey set off a process, in Le Monde's opinion, which should lead to the stoppage of work on the Concorde "in a short time...
...How can the trial have been just, the, Coalition's newsletter asks, when Dr...
...Europe will not form a political union," be argues, "because Europe cannot possibly agree on what it wants to become...
...In his words: 'The real issue for Europeans today is how they are to accomplish the psychological transition (which is far more difficult than the practical one) out of a transatlantic dependence that can no longer, quite, be sustained by either Europeans or Americans...
...The argument that Europe's political division is the source of insecurity and that Europe, must be united in order to be safe has been made by virtually every non-Gaullist commentator and politician in Europe and the United States since the Second World War," says Pfaff...
...Even if no one in power will bring himself to articulate the choice that has been made, or perhaps will even dare admit that a choice has been made, Europe plainly has all the unity it wants or all the unity it can bear...
...They are the richest and most powerful of the European states, with the largest military forces, including, in France's case, the world's third largest strategic nuclear force...
...Odds and Ends The resolution before the priests' senate of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee proposed an expression of support for the Vatican's recent document on sexual ethics...
...Much Ade About • • • An advertisement in the Charlotte, N.C., daily press featured a picture of a bottle of King James scotch whiskey, flanked with the words The" and "Version" to make the phrase "The King James Version...
...By his estimate European unity is a practical impossibility but, paradoxically, a theoretical fact...
...Not great, according to ex-Commonweal associate editor William Pfaff, writing from Paris in the April 12 New Yorker...
...But this is not necessarily fatal, in Pfaffs opinion, for "the truth is that unity already exists in Western Europe...
Vol. 103 • May 1976 • No. 10
