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...Fegley pointed out, still had cocoa concessions-for some In the light of all this, it may make little difference whether years Madrid even banned news about Equatorial Guinea...
...The island peoples have been unable to flee...
...could trigger a major war...
...Whenever that occurs, author and editors alike are disappointed...
...The Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, United States said the move was "harmful to the peace process" and, coming at this Jacqueline Reeves time, was particularly "regrettable...
...At that time the The Snow Poems/The Selected Poems: foremost hard-line member of Israel's government charged that the United States Edward Proffitt 537 was "gravely imperiling the peace achievements in the Middle East" by what he Reviewing the Forties: said was its desire to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Nathan A. Scott, Jr...
...Ruth E. Taylor such settlements in occupied territory are illegal under international law, an interprePublisher: Edward S. Skillin tation disputed by the Israelis...
...Interestingly enough, it was the Nablus settlement that led 59 prominent gust, by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madi- American Jewish leaders to direct a strong protest on Israeli settlement policy to son Ave., New York, N.Y...
...lead if they are to make any progress in their talks over the future of Palestinians...
...Confessions of a Conservative: John Leo535 As blacks, among others, grow more critical of Israel in the wake of the Andrew Everyone/He Was One of Us: Young affair, Israeli hard-liners grow increasingly critical of the U.S., echoing the Diana Culbertson 536 charges made by Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon in June...
...problem...
...Yet Israel now says The Catholic church was also a special object of terror...
...Why had all governments and settling the Sinai policing issue and the question of oil sales to international bodies been so complacent about a regime that Israel, but they made no progress at all on the issue of Palesti- had killed one out of every ten people in ten years...
...Sharon was quoted as expressing his conviction "that we cannot, under any circumstances, reach understanding with the Americans" on the issue of autonomy for the more than one million Arabs who live in the West Bank and Gaza...
...The USSR has generous fishing how a formula must be found that satisfies the need for Palesti- rights...
...sion for a militant Jewish group to settle on land taken over from the Arabs in a very Poetry: John Fandel sensitive area near the Arab city of Nablus, a center of Palestinian nationalism...
...Instead, ever since Camp David Israel has that were combined into Equatorial Guinea, was particularly seemed to do everything possible to embarrass and hurt him victimized...
...Special two-year rate: The potential explosiveness of the current Middle Eastern situation was well $35...
...If anything, people seemed to be in search of a new ever assembled, including 313 delegates, 210 accre- `natural theology' with spiritual depth, one sufficiently condited observers, 199 staff, 145 press, from 59 countries, 40 vincing to the mind that it reaches the soul...
...The wife of a man who was nian problem...
...the Israeli government are doing little toward a solution to the still another, of gangrene after his eyes were gouged out...
...thor of Piers Plowman and the Image...
...10016...
...Later reof "Faith, Science and the Future" with a view to the creation written, it read, "We denounce the use of science and technolof "a just, participatory and sustainable society," a goal ogy by industrialized and technically advanced societies to staked out by the WCC's last General Assembly at Nairobi, serve military and economic interests which have brought Kenya, in 1975...
...Israel has the right to build such settlements on the Commonweal, A Review of Public Affairs, Litera- West Bank, said Prime Minister Begin, "since this is our land...
...It is, unfortunately, too soon to tell...
...way when atrocities have no ideological or geopolitical sig- WHEN: July 12-24, 1979...
...Significantly, in their most recent meet- couldn't have been happier...
...James O'Gara Organization, guns at the ready...
...flying over continents and oceans...
...212) MU 3-2042...
...rael's basic security...
...People, however, also used to be scared of their assistant professor of theology at Canisius College in Buffalo, magicians...
...The implication is strong that Israel to the island as forced labor...
...The man under policies and a host of other issues...
...The American position has always been that Advertising Manager...
...Some of their reaction was so angry that it approached unreaWHAT: A conference sponsored by the Church and Society son...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski, No substitute for quality: the President's national security advisor...
...great sufferings to the people of the Third World...
...539 Strip...
...Contents Volume CVI, Number 17 commonweal Correspondence 514 Editorials 515 Science, faith & future: John C. Con 517 September and school: Abigail McCarthy 519 The ugly little secret: John Garvey 520 Busing and the courts: Maurice deG...
...There I was no hint of the religion-vs.-science debate...
...Since then over a quarter of intends to continue the occupation of the West Bank indefi- Equatorial Guinea's population has fled to Cameroun and nitely, one way or the other...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S...
...In some observations made after the meeting Max Stackhouse of AndoverNewton Theological School pointed out that the kind of theolSCIENCE, FAITH & FUTURE ogy sought by many at the conference was "not the theology ECUMANIA AT M.I.T...
...NEW EDITORS WHERE: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...A major United States initiative will be necessary to alter exploration interests...
...About 60 of them, roughly half, issued a written stateDepartment of the World Council of Churches on the subject ment that "we denounce science and technology...
...At Camp David, Menachem Gabon...
...diplomacy in the Middle East...
...Robert Strauss, Secretary Vance or Zbigniew Brzezinski "The French hold a forestry concession and contracts for Bata emerges as the top man in the current Middle East negotia- port...
...That will not be easy, but nothing less Now that Equatorial Guinea's junior Idi Amin has been will do...
...When autonomy is so defined, is it any wonder Last August the Macias regime was overthrown...
...what kind of training should one undertake for a 13-day-andnight conference...
...nian autonomy...
...helping to strengthen the position of Egypt's President Sadat, The island of Fernando Po, one of the two Spanish colonies its only Arab ally...
...Strauss has won one round in the Lois Spear 533 struggle for dominance, but the lines of authority are not yet clear...
...occupation...
...foreign, $39...
...Yet there was still an important ing President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin had no trouble lesson in what he had written...
...ernment and its civilian administration...
...Fuerst & Jim Bergstrom 527 Hero of the year: John P. Rossi 529 CAMP DAVID Verse: John Nixon, Jr., Roy Scheele 530 Martin Galvin 534 WHO IS in charge of U.S...
...And many Middle East experts believe David S. Toolan that analysis to be quite accurate...
...In Brief: Gerard Sloyan, John Druska 540 Nonetheless, Mr...
...Virtually all church activities insists that it continue to control land, water, settlement were restricted to the point of prohibition...
...One of Columnists: John Garvey, Frank Getlein, the most provocative examples of this policy was the recent official Israeli permisAbigail McCarthy, Thomas Powers Movies: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...Fair Footnote: "Just" is an old term, "participatory" a newer enough, but there were mutterings at the insistence that scienterm that is preferred in WCC circles to the more ambiguous tists "accept as the sole purpose of their work the alleviation o 28 September 1979:517...
...Denouncing ture and the Arts, is published biweekly, except foreign and domestic critics of the settlement policy, he said, "We shall pay no monthly Christmas-New Year's and July and Au- attention...
...cloven hoof and were looking, almost pleading, for some kind of exorcism, some kind of grace, salvation, help from the apostles of theology...
...ists and some with no visible sign of religious support...
...Fegley's report was on Equatorial Guinea, a tiny country with a population about the size of Dayton, Ohio's...
...Ford 522 Are integrated schools better?: ONE YEAR AFTER J.S...
...Yale, formerly on the English faculties at Manhattanville However, the accommodations were excellent, and some of College, Northwestern University and Boston University, au- the best speakers were from the MIT faculty...
...Telephone: Prime Minister Begin...
...Said a PLO spokesman: "We will force the United Executive Editor: Peter Steinfels States to recognize us...
...that autonomy applies only to people and not to territory and Clerics were killed and exiled...
...After a where he was active in ecumenical work, adult education and century of blind trust in good white magicians we have discovsuch groups as the Harrisburg Defense Committee, contributor ered the cloven hoof again...
...and "a tendency to escape terrestrial reality by constantly We thought you'd like to know...
...The latter too were mostly more humble World Council conference about their own failings and ignorance via-a-vis science...
...The Wallne4paper, which served as Joining Commonweal this week as assistant editors are two outlet for anger, frustration and outrageous humor, comnew staff members: mented, "Holding a conference on faith and science at MIT is • Daniel M. Murtaugh, with degrees from Holy Cross and like holding a conference on disarmament at the Pentagon...
...militia direction has been the ending of a 12-year-old regulation opened fire on the returnees...
...One would think that Israel would be interested in Villages of offending personages were burnt...
...They did not trust their intentions...
...Confessional' theology and `dogmatic' theology were largely ignored-as were those modes of theology which draw on W HO: Probably the largest and certainly the most im- linguistic analysis, literary criticism and sociology of knowlpressive accumulation of scientists and religious types edge...
...In 1972 the Nigerian work force that had migwith his Arab neighbors...
...531 Robert S. Strauss...
...Fegthat Palestinian moderates find it impossible to join the ley's article had been overtaken by events, and for once we negotiating process...
...To replace the Nigerians, beprohibiting Israeli citizens and businesses from buying land in tween 20,000 and 25,000 Rio Munians were arrested and sent the occupied territories...
...He replied, "These ecumaniacs are always in training...
...Government policy seems whom all this was proudly accomplished was Francisco to imply either annexation of Arab land at will or indefinite Macias Nguema...
...David Toolan, S.J., with degrees from Fordham, always been magic...
...For the last decade, Equatorial Guinea has suffered under one of the world's most brutal dictatorships...
...The Mid East's first aerial encounter in five years, this is the kind of thing that 28 September 1979: 515 ATROCITIES & SILENCE From time to time Commonweal accepts an article for publication, has it set in type, schedules it for one issue after another, but repeatedly sees it "bumped".for lack of space until events finally render the piece outdated...
...of God and various WHY: A woman speaker, Kerstin Aner, Sweden's Underscholarly articles, whose first contribution to Commonweal Secretary of State, put it as well as anybody, "Science has was published in 1969...
...I asked an exhausted delegate nificance, when they are "only" atrocities...
...Staff That is one side of the picture...
...China has supplied assistance and loans, Israel's current hard-line stance, and for this a new interven- as have Cuba, North Korea, Egypt, Sudan, West Germany, tion by President Carter himself may well be required...
...Another political leader died of thirst in jail...
...suicided" in a suspicious fall from a window was herself At this point it must be said that Prime Minister Begin and publicly tortured...
...Later I read on the Wallnewspaper outside the FINDING OF THE WEEK conference hall a definition of ecumania: "an acute mental DUBLIN (RNS) - Ninety-two percent of the parents of chil- disorder affecting respectable and leisurely individuals" dren in Christian Brothers' schools in Ireland approve of whose symptoms include "hallucinations of church unity" corporal punishment (spanking...
...One exception is an article sent us last spring by freelance reporter Randall Fegley...
...The nian self-determination while at the same time protecting Is- OAU has provided aid, but refused to act...
...It is not too soon out of the debate over limits of growth, oil, nuclear energy, to note again how tempting it is for the world to look the other etc...
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...foreign, $22...
...On the other stands the Palestinian Liberation Editor...
...Editorial Assistant: Anne Robertson Exacerbating this already dangerous situation is Israel's settlement policy...
...This was immediately denied by the State Department, citing President Carter's statement that "we've never espoused an independent Palestinian state...
...Christian churches, give or take a church or two, including the There was also much anger, particularly from representaRoman Catholic, and a scattering of Jews, Muslims, Buddh- tives of the Third World, who numbered almost 40 percent...
...Present Israeli plans call for the rated to harvest the cocoa crop on Femando Po was evacuated settlement of 200,000 more people in the occupied territory after gross allegations of mistreatment...
...And at the root of the airborne "By the end of 1974," Fegley reported, "more than twoconflict was Israel's continuing attacks on Palestinian bases in thirds of the members of the 1968 Parliament had died or Lebanon, a fact which only underlines again that there can be `disappeared.' " Various political figures were "jailed, kilno peace in the Middle East without a solution to the Palesti- led, exiled and tortured...
...Without the Palestinian Liberation Organization there is not Assistant Editors: Daniel M. Murtaugh, going to be any peace in the Middle East...
...to Theological Studies and Commonweal, in which his But most of the scientists present were already aware of the first published work appeared in 1973...
...The diplomatic confusion that results from this state of affairs cannot long be tolerated, for it seems Books clear that Egypt and Israel need a strong U.S...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...Their locally-born over the next five years, and the newest Israeli move in this wives were not allowed to accompany them, and...
...In fact, Begin agreed to "full autonomy" for the West Bank and they were even "forbidden to go near the shores to prevent further agreed to the withdrawal of the Israeli military gov- escapes...
...Some- Switzerland and Sweden...
...The United States . . . has petroleum and uranium tions...
...illustrated by the recent dogfight between Israeli and Syrian warplanes over Lebanon...
...which is most visible in leading theological circles...
...The United Nations agencies have said little...
...Most of those present were evidently not ecumaniacs-they looked pretty beat by July 24...
...deposed, perhaps that land will be released from terror and Commonweal: 516 bloodshed to face the more "normal" hardships of a backward "democratic," and "sustainable" is the newest term, arising economy...
...Spain, Mr...
...It has promised to provide exactly the same things that magic did: the means to power, riches, and Georgetown and Southern Methodist, for the last nine yearss love...
...Chief negotiator Screen: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...and Canada, $20...
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