Editorial
CORRESPONDENCE Previous Opinions Pittsburgh, Pa. To the Editors: I am puzzled by a reference in Joseph Cunneen's otherwise excellent review of a book by Rev. Andrew Greeley [May 13]. Mr....
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...CHARLES OWEN RICE French-Quebec Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S...
...There is one often neglected factor that might help to explain existing unrest and confusion...
...I don't know what naive Monsignor did cry out at Father G. Hate to spoil a good story but it was not Yours truly (in Christ), (MSGR...
...The difficulties here for United States foreign policy are obvious, and the stakes are high...
...It was Labor that lost, hugely, forfeiting 21 seats...
...To the Likud, the captured areas are rightfully in Israel's domain because they are part of the biblical Jewish homeland...
...To the Editors: Jordan Bishop's article on the French fact in Canada [May 13], though a brief treatment of a complex situation, contains a number of sensir insights into current Canadian concerns...
...officials tried to put as good a face on things as possible, but others did not share their wait-and-see attitude...
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...Besides the future benefaction of the chair and its endowment, the university would have the immediate advantage of Henry as an attraction to big givers...
...Meanwhile, friends of Israel, both those inside and outside of Congress, can use their good offices: they should urge on the new Israeli regime a policy of moderation and flexibility in an effort to head off a potential disaster...
...Most comments about Canada's regional nature stop far short of his forthright and well-founded assertion that "in many ways Canada is not a nation," and that it cannot be assimilated simply to the nation-state formula...
...If Begin persists in saying the West Bank is Israeliliberated territory and not to be evacuated, we wonder what he considers as the complete map of Israel...
...Translation o/ /ront cover symbols: "Faces o[ the New China" JAMES O'GAU: EdDer JOHN DEEDY: Managing Edlter RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Asseclate Edlter ANNE M. ROEERTSON, Edlterlal Asslstaat COLIN L. WESTEREECK, JR.: Mevles JOHN FANDEL: Peatry PRANK GRTLEIN: Wasklegtee BRIAN WICKER...
...Willy nilly, Mr...
...The only hope on the horizon lies in the transformation that sometimes takes place when a strident oppositionist finds himself the leader of the government...
...It should be said that the election was not fought on foreign policy issues...
...It is not so much that Menahem Begin's Likud party won a great victorymindeed, the Likud gained only a few seats over its total in the last election...
...WASHINGTON REPORT PROFESSOR KISSINGER Was Henry Kissinger entitled to an endowed chair in History at Columbia University...
...The danger is that Mr...
...What now can be the attitude of the United States toward the hawkish new Israeli administration...
...Were protests against his pulling up that chair and sitting in it infringements of his freedom of speech or of the academic freedom of top university management to seek a sock-o fundraising attraction...
...inflation, constant strikes, im'possible taxes and personal corruption combined to oust Labor after 29 years...
...If he would think not, neither would he lecture, at least Kissinger would probably have been available for the occasional private meeting or intimate party for heavy donors just on the edge of signing the final codicil...
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...I do not recall any such incident...
...It is a terrible thing to have to say, hut it seems clear that the chances of war in the Middle East are much greater now than they were just a few short weeks ago...
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...Father Greeley has no facts...
...It was also no small service the university was repay24 lune 1977:388...
...The impressing of rich people impressed by celebs is no small service to the modern university...
...405 VERSE: Thomas Reiter 3 0 1 ; Richard E. McMullen 30"1 TIlE TWIN URGES OF JAMES BALDWIN: Wil/rid Sheed 404 ON BEING IlANS KUNG: Jaroslav Pelikan 407 BOOKS: Eleanor B. Wymard, David Bowman, Lois Spear, Ronaid Christ, l~tichael F. McCauley, Stu Cohen, John L. McKenzie 408 ILLIff,~"rlL4TIONS: Front cover and pages 393 and 396, courtesy ol The Holy Cross Quarterly...
...What was proposed was never that Kissinger should occupy an existing scholarly post at Columbia and in it conduct either historical research or the supervision of the research of apprentice historians...
...This would have cost the university nothing----or at least nothing that the accountants commonly in charge of academic enterprise could find for the debit side...
...Opinion is opinion no matter what you do with it...
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...As for the PLO, their position is simply that former Irgun leader "Begin is a terrorist and should face trial as a war criminal...
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...What was proposed was that Kissinger's ancient benefactors and sponsors, the Rockefellers, should endow a new, special chair at Columbia to be occupied by the great Nixonian whenever he happened to be on the upper West Side and feeling like sitting down...
...His Opinion Research entity deals in opinion...
...After Father Greeley and his company examine an issue and take their polls and samples, they end up where they started, all previous opinions miraculously confirmed...
...You may mill it, grind it, stuff it, polish it, even filter it, and it remains opinion, subjectively...
...None of the three was remotely involved in the proposals or prospects for Henry Kissinger at Columbia...
...And if there is no progress in negotiations, he said, "I would not exclude another military confrontation...
...Begin and Likud will maintain this rigid stance, insisting that the conquered territories are part of Israel, perhaps even formally annexing them and denying full civil and political rights to the Arab inhabitants...
...But if the results can not be called a famous Likud victory, the fact remains that it is Likud's Begin who will almost certainly form the next government, and there's the problem...
...A large part of the English-speaking three-fourths of the population feels unrepresented, even be(Continued on page 415) NEWS & VIEWS: 38G CORRESPONDENCE: 287 EDITORIAl,: 387 WASHINGTON REPORT: P r o f e s s o r K i s s t s ~ e r : Frank Getlein 388 A PASTORAL STRATEGY: Brian Wicker 390 A LITTLE igNOWLEII~IE: Peter Steinfels 392 READING CIlINESE TEA LEAVES: Sylvia E. Crane 303 TIlE CHUIlCIl IN CHINA: Robert L. Johnston 394 PRIESTS~NUNS~MINISTERS IN POLITICS: Jim Castelli 398 TIlE PREK~: Too Much With Us: Thomas Powers 400 TIlE SCIlEEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
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...UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said immediately that the electoral victory for the right Commonweal: 387 wing would probably preclude any Middle East peace parley this year...
...Such a course would make impossible any solution to the Palestinian problem, which is precisely what Arab leaders see as the core of the Middle East problem...
...Said Jordan's King Hussein: "Likud's position on borders is very menacing...
...I have discussed him in my writings but always from a point of view the opposite to that suggested by your estimable reviewer...
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...Indeed, in view of the existing show biz engagements of the showman, it's hard to see how anyone could have imagined he could have fit in any academic work of any kind at all...
...But the matter will not be easily changed, and for now all concerned must live with the electoral verdict as best they can...
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...Arab leaders like to pretend that there is no difference between Israeli leaders, that the distinction between hawk and dove in Israel is meaningless, but the victory of Mr...
...What is the Israeli vision of the shape and size of Israel...
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...Begin may have to strike a more moderate note once he bears the responsibility of the Prime Minister's office...
...Then too the need to fashion a coalition broad enough to support a government may force him to temper his views to some extent...
...As soon as you phrase the question that waymin accordance, that is, with the situation as it actually existed--you begin to get a new light and in that light to see that the whole affair had nothing at all to do with the academic freedom of anyone...
...000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MIDDLE EASTERN PROSPECTS The dust of the Israeli elections has had a chance to settle, but the view now is not much better than it was in the first place...
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...At a time when Arab leaders seemed finally to be moving toward some kind of moderation in their approach to Israel and when even the PLO was beginning to sound halfway reasonable on occasion, an intransigent regime in Israel headed by a famous former guerrilla leader is the last thing anyone needs...
...Cunneen has me crying out, "You and your damned facts...
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...Academic freedom has to do with the three areas of scholarly activity: research, publication and teaching...
...On this we can only wait and hope...
...I've never encountered Father Greeley...
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...The university got, first of all, the endowment of the chair itself, which presumably, once the Mad Bomber was called to other business in this world or the next, would have reverted to Columbia free and clear, with the Rockefellers no longer entitled to name the occupant, the university able to appoint a genuine scholar to a previously non-existent benefice...
...Since the Likud resolutely bars any negotiations over the West Bank or the Gaza strip or indeed any consideration of a Palestinian homeland, this response is hardly surprising...
...Equally significant was the Arab reaction...
...Begin obviously shook them, with Arab countries and the PLO alike calling the election results a serious setback to efforts for a Middle East settlement...
...But the result has been a victory for a right-wing political leader who insists that the Arab lands taken in the 1967 war are not occupied but liberated...
...If the correspondents in the Middle East are correct, the Israeli voters were stunned the day after the election at what they had done, and no wonder...
Vol. 104 • June 1977 • No. 13
