Editorials
Contents Volume CVI, Number 22 Correspondence 674 Editorials 675 Anarchist connection: John Deedy 677 Feeling good: John Garvey 678 War by computer: Thomas Powers 679 Below the SALT... some...
...Some months ago the United States cut off all economic and military aid to Pakistan because of its nuclear weapons program, but so far this has been ineffective...
...Twenty-three percent go to Mass several times a year and 67 percent go rarely or never...
...More than three hundred opposition political leaders have recently been put under arrest, and public lashings as punishment for various offenses have become a regular feature of the Pakistani scene...
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...According to the poll, only nine percent of women between the ages of 18 and 34 are practicing Catholics who go to Mass every Sunday...
...We just hope it won't be possible to use it in this country, exactly as it is, in ten or twenty years...
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...There are already fifteen countries which do not have nuclear weapons but theoretically have the capability of building them...
...eneral Zia insists that Pakistan is aiming only at nuclear power for energy production, but U.S...
...The country under its military ruler, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, has become an increasingly authoritarian Islamic state...
...Finally, 50 percent of the women questioned considered that women had too little to say in church decisions...
...At this point, would anyone outside of lran feel safer if the Ayatollah Khomeini had atomic bombs at his disposal...
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...This view was shared by 25 percent of practicing Catholic women and, again, was strongest among women in the upper executive class...
...and other countries woke up to what was afoot...
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...Until recently, American experts thought a Pakistani nuclear explosion ws at least two years away...
...Most positive replies came from women in the upper executive class...
...Nor are South Africa and Israel alone...
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...The consequences of a successful atomic explosion in the undeveloped and unstable coun.tty of Pakistan would be grave...
...So far India .has refused, and there are no signs that it is likely to change its mind...
...Early in November the alarm went out to our defense forces that a missile attack had been launched against the United States...
...Can Pakistan be stopped...
...It would almost certainly bring about a nuclear arms race with its traditional eriemy, India, and would pose a constant threat of the first use of atomic weapons against human targets since Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Whether South Africa did explode a bomb or not, it is no secret that it and Israel could very soon explode a nuclear device if they cared to do so...
...It may be too late to lock the stable door on Pakistan...
...Pakistan managed to lay its hands on the technological know-how, some say by theft, and 7 December 1979:675purchased the crucial components of its nuclear plant before the U.S...
...But one thing is sure: to keep the same sort of thing from happening again, we need stringent measures of export control to make any other move in the direction of nuclear weapons expensive and difficult, to insure that such efforts would be detected early and, it is to be hoped, stopped before they get started...
...More than 25 percent of American women who claim to be practicing Catholics say they are not, or at most only slightly, interested in the church's position on the issues...
...When asked, "Do you expect the church to help you...
...The move away from the church by women is found in the little interest they show in the church's stand on such questions as abortion and contraception...
...So says a public opinion poll published in the Catholic weekly Our Sunday Visitor, which confirms an impression given by Father Jean-Made Aubert, professor of theology at the University of Strasbourg, in his just-published book, "Christianity and Anti-femininity...
...22 a Defense Department satellite detected an intense flash of light of the sort characteristic of a nuclear explosion while passing over a remote expanse of ocean...
...It would also be a serious setback in efforts to curb the spread of atomic weapons throughout the world...
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...It might well mark the beginning of an era when not only small nations but even well organized terrorist groups starting with the PLO could blackmail the world with nuclear weapons...
...At this point the signs are not favorable...
...some ethical dilemmas: John Langan 681 SALT: the case against: James F. Reid 684 SALT: a Pacific view: Stephen A. Garrett 688 One of the Just: In memory of Mary Widman: Nina Polcyn Moore 690 Screen: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...But unless we can contain U.S.-USSR rivalry and check nuclear proliferation throughout the world, the danger is that some day soon the alarm will not be false...
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...Members of Congress who have' been briefed on the matter think South Africa was responsible for the explosion, but Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance said that the evidence of a nuclear explosion was so inconclusive that it was impossible to state categorically that South Africa or any other country had actually detonated an atomic device...
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...76 to 85 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 34 replied "no...
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...Above all, what is needed is a sense of urgency in the cause of creating international safeguards that will restrain and eventually ban all nuclear weapons...
...No one can say for sure...
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...now they are considerably less sure...
...with or without the aid of Progressive magazine, and by the mid-eighties it is calculated that as many as thirty-five countries will have accumulated enough plutonium to make several dozen nuclear weapons...
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...Pakistan is a good example of the problem...
...Now experts think Pakistan has gone too far to be stopped by the denial of sensitive technology or key parts...
...HANGING OVER OUR HEADS n D ID sotrrH AFRICA or some nation unknown set off a nuclear explosion near the coast of Africa some weeks ago...
...officials are unconvinced...
...As it turned out, the alert was a false alarm...
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...After lengthy negotiations with Secretm'y Vance, Pakistani 9 delegates expressed willingness to place all that country's nuclear facilities under international safeguards and inspections but only if India would do the same...
...On the question of contraception, women between the ages of 35 and 64 show least interest in what the church thinks (53 percent...
...Middle class women made up the majority of those who did not look to the church for help...
...MAR#UI.Is WOMEN IN THE CHURCH The following is a dispatch from Religious News Service: NEW YORK (RNS)--After being abandoned by the working class, the Roman Catholic Church in the United States is now falling out of favor with women...
...Indeed, some in Congress argue that exactly the opposite course should be followed, that what Pakistan needs is aid in the form of conventional arms so that the country would feel secure without nuclear weapons...
...As life gets increasingly harsh at home, Pakistan confronts its old enemy, India, which has already exploded an atomic deu as well as a new enemy, Soviet-backed Afghanistan...
...That's the Religious News Service story in its entirety...
Vol. 106 • December 1979 • No. 22
