Editorials
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...owner of the dormitories...
...the average paycheck now is worth only $1.10 more close to family, clergy, and lawyers...
...relationship that would turn Sadat into another Shah...
...The new induction into the macabre rituals of American prison life...
...The FBP hints at a "shuttle wage-price controls, evenly spread across the board for bus" for families (600 miles round trip...
...Perhaps basic is that small-time operators with no from the New York City Metro area...
...It may be that the AFL-CIO is being hasty...
...And inflation is the enemy of all, employer and Robert Howard talks with Youngstown's worker alike...
...It will be interesting, Families, mostly low income, will almost never visit their though, by the time the labor suit arrives in court, to see if the sons, fathers, and husbands...
...foreign, $39...
...North American, and Japanese privileged youths will have Meanwhile, federal auditors are raising questions about barely faded away from the dormitory corridors when they will nepotism, double expense accounts, questionable contracts, be replaced by the doleful voices of ghetto males their own and slipshod practices...
...and Middle East-with the United States, in effect, as John C. Campbell describes the Canada, $20...
...Accordagain to the "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people," and ing to present plans, the labor organization will ask the Carter himself has referred to a Palestinian "homeland...
...then, as his administration progressed, his brain power, personal charm Joyce's Pauline Vision: Robert L. King , 190 and pious zeal seemed to have had limited impact on the welfare crisis, inflation, national health insurance or the South Bronx...
...but he took the risk partly because his own economy-where the average Egyptian scrapes by on less than lem is to strike a balanced posture that both respects the values $250 a year-could no longer support the anti-Israel crusade...
...should be paid to labor's argument...
...of "religious non-violence," and shows a quiet strength that Now Egypt, which already receives $1 billion a year from allows us to stick up for our rights without resorting to the Saudi Arabia, which may back away, and another billion from Mayaguez mentality of the previous administration...
...More immediately, the United States has three other problems to solve...
...Expensive motels and restaurants...
...Nonetheless, attention dispossessed steelworkers...
...The minority families (40 percent of fed1980 Winter Olympics eral prisoners are minority and increasing) will not find it easy in this swank resort...
...To give a about it all...
...that the Carter program has a built-in tilt, that it holds down wages far more successfully than it does prices...
...food, health care, housing and energy-all basic necessities Enter major denominational and criminal justice groups...
...The panies that violate wage guidelines...
...the "courage of ture and the Arts, is published biweekly, except non-violence...
...it may be Church bodies insist that the location is inhumane, like that the Carter voluntary program will still take hold and make locating a city jail 300 miles away from the city it serves...
...That courts to prevent the administration from enforcing the antihad better not be, as one Carter aide implied in a conversation inflation program by denying government contracts to comwith a Newsweek reporter (March 19), "lip-service...
...for the working man and all of which are relatively unaffected The Olympic Prison's location, 300 miles from the inmates' by the Carter guidelines...
...A Catch of Anti-Letters: Michael True 188 Seldom has an American president taken such an active and intimate role in the Apocalypse: N. E. Condini 189 details of international negotiations...
...AFL-CIO says Saul Maloff.reviews Bernard Malamud...
...10016...
...situation requires it...
...The joyful cries of these largely European, taking a stand so far have condemned the prison after-use...
...Yet these qualities-plus the willingness to respond to the vision of peace by taking a- bold, almost unreasonable, Staff risk-may have made it possible for him to achieve the peace that has eluded his Editor James O'Gara more pragmatic predecessors...
...Is it (perhaps 100 years...
...To get What form resentment from athletes themselves may take the 1980 Olympics the Lake Placid citizens, beset by high nobody knows but it could be significant...
...It insists there are better and cheaper ways of Robert C. McEwen, rejecting a sports after-use, dovetailed handling the largely non-violent federal offenders such as plans for a medium-security federal prison in the Northeast increased probation, restitution, shorter sentences, and workwith dormitories for Olympic athletes...
...over...
...The companies in turn take this posture to steam from the Pacific into the Arabian Sea...
...Without naming places, than it was in 1968, and almost $5 less than it was in 1972...
...With the games still 13 months away the scene is one of Montreal paid $100,000,000 for 1974 Olympic security alone...
...100,000-plus czar hired to clamp down the lid said "the fun is Modern Olympics are expensive, political, and dangerous...
...All this is true enough...
...One bus a day 10 months a year editorialists are still quite so convinced that the AFL-CIO case from New York City...
...the U.S., will need even more-ideally enough to save it from the kind of chaos that has hit Iran but without the kind of IS THE AFL-CIO WRONG...
...ing a new string of military bases in the area...
...The problem of management, as he says, is essentially one of adaptation without 30 March 1979: 163 losing sight of hard interests: we must stay strong enough militarily to discourage Soviet military adventurism, yet realize that all the basic decisions in the region must be made byy the local governments...
...From the start, in November of 1977, Sadat's peace initiative risked reinforcing his alienation from the rest of the Arab world...
...They are the new FROM GOLD MEDALS TO HANDCUFFS sanitized 1984 electronic surveillance type...
...In the long run we The issue is a very practical and pressing one: many companies are more confident with the patient, exhausting, low-keyed that are bargaining this year, including the big auto, rubber and diplomacy of President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus electrical manufacturing firms, have millions of dollars worth Vance than we are with what James Reston has described as of federal contracts and can be counted on to argue that seven Zbigniew Brzezinski's "drama of confrontation...
...If the COMING: Jack Miles writes on Christian AFL-CIO should win its case, its victory would be a fatal blow to the Carter anti-inflation effort, which is already in deep totemism and the Mass...
...Basically...
...and meanwhile we must lead other nations-including the Soviet Union-to share our common interests in regional stability...
...A $22 million appro- release programs, and that the upcoming decline in the 18-25priation was waltzed through judicial committee mazes in age population means many fewer violent type criminals...
...Some committee members are not happy worth it all to place inmates 300 miles from family...
...For $1 New York State sold the FBP Will the TV programs in 1980 on ABC be worth the macabre 30 March 1979: 165...
...They cannily figured that Uncle Sam would not let opening gun, and afterwards...
...everyone...
...it insists that it tried numerous other sites near New York but What the AFL-CIO wants is mandatory rather than voluntary was rebuffed by area citizens...
...Withholding government negotiations to lay the groundwork for establishing Palestinian contracts for non-compliance, charged George Meany, self-rule on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip will go on for amounts to a form of mandatory wage-price controls that over a year and the Jordanians and Palestinians have not yet Congress has refused to authorize...
...prison is five miles out of town...
...The almost windowless "dormitories" resemble huge round gun emplacements more than structures where human PRISON GAMES beings will be caged the next hundred years...
...foreign, $22...
...rejected the Winter Olympics by statewide referendum...
...That is the long view...
...Second, this "peace" will never work unless the Palestine THE AFL-CIO is taking flak on its effort to derail President problem is solved...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft, for example, while Poetry: John Fandel, conceding Carter "high marks for what he did," laments "the spectacle of a Staff: Linda F. Kayler, Harriette Balsky shuttling president, begging Sadat and Begin to be reasonable, accommodating his Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor moods and schedule to their most idiosyncratic political needs," and Time's Hugh Publisher: Edward S. Skillin Sidey worries about Carter's worldview becoming "increasingly biblical," with his Commonweal, A Review of Public Affairs, Litera- (to Sidey) disturbing talk about "the downtrodden" and (horrors...
...One high ranking FBP official told this writer that even his federal per diem expense allowance was insufficient for Lake Placid living...
...full partner in the bargaining, turning the dollar flow off and on The proposed suit would not prevent the government from to help Israel and Egypt to live up to their commitments...
...the Canadian national lottery to pay it off...
...confusion, rising tempers, and certainly increased opposition Quebec, stuck'with a $1 Billion Olympic debt, is fighting for to the prison...
...This promise has come against the background of two of the most difficult and critical months in recent American diplomatic history: months characterized by an unusual interaction of, on the one hand, personal factors-like the emotions, Books principles and religious visions of the national leaders involved-and, on the other hand, political and cultural factors- like the sudden emergence of pan-Islamism as a The Origin of the Idea of Crusade/The Fourth political force, the shift within Saudi Arabia away from too close identification with Crusade: David Herlihy 184 the United States, and the murder of our ambassador to Afghanistan-over which, The Yugoslavs: Matthew Mestrovic 186 our government has had very little control but which some image-conscious AmeriAnti-Judaism in Christian Theology: cans tend to interpret in personal terms, as if we were letting ourselves be pushed John T. Pawlikowski 187 around by the wise guys on the street...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S...
...Some fear the final figure will exceed WFebruary 1980 the world's youthful monarchs of rink 1000...
...During the 1976 presidential campaign we Anticipatory Democracy: Steven Philip heard a lot about the encyclopedic memory, the subtle intellect, personal charm in Kramer 189 small groups, super-human capacity for work and religious fervor of the Georgia governor...
...Editorials 163 ;a Prison games: Graham H. Hodges 165 '1ligiwi1i The ho-hum election: Jordan Bishop 166 Bad thoughts: John Garvev 167 The next war: Thomas Powers 168 PEACE-MAKING: Death sentence for affirmative action: Isidore Silver 171 A NEW POSTURE The right to remain Indian: Robert A. Hecht 176 Screen: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...and slope will leave the Winter Olympics at Lake Except for 12 Lake Placid-area clergymen all church groups Placid, New York...
...Though the FBP will host 1800 athletes in these walls it promises to cage no FARING THEIR bronze, silver, and gold medals, in more than 500 prisoners...
...Opposition to the AFL-CIO plan is easy to understand...
...Colorado citizens Increasing rumblings are coming from foreign nations...
...monthly Christmas-New Year's and July and Au- Now that the President has achieved a personal moral triumph, his administration gust, by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madi- must fashion a new policy that takes into account the broader historical shift in the son Ave., New York, N.Y...
...Meany agreed to take part...
...This particular type of courage, in this instance, is Executive Editor: Peter Steinfels unusual, tempered as it is by patience and a humility a certain type of macho Associate Editor: Raymond A. Schroth American mind is ill-equipped to understand: a willingness to suffer personal abuse Editorial Assistant: Anne Robertson Movies: Culin L. Westerbeck...
...179 HE PROMISED peace settlement between Israel and Egypt both gives a new Stage: Gerald- Weales 180 luster to the leadership image of President Jimmy Carter and marks a key Verse: Leo Dangel 181 moment in the gradual development of a comprehensive new American The culture of fascism: Lynn Garafola 182 foreign policy in the Middle East...
...The prob- percent is absolutely as high as they can go...
...Telephone: (212) MU 3-2042...
...Single copy, $ 1. tally acquired with the consent of the local governments since the October 1973 war...
...Their voices will convey previous practice are playing with tens of millions...
...We have committed ourselves again and Carter's "voluntary" anti-inflation program...
...Congress, the stated primary purpose that of housing Olympic Disturbing questions persist: Would we allow American athletes (two weeks) and the secondary purpose being a prison athletes to live in a Russian prison at the 1980 games...
...down such a semi-sacred event as the Olympics once an Meanwhile, the Moratorium on Prison Construction group American locality was committed to it...
...Lawsuits are filed over mail fundage, 18-25, convicted of federal offenses and drawn mostly raising...
...The Federal Bureau of Prisons is the builder and depressed area a few jobs is such an arrangement justified...
...an effective mark on the economy...
...And once again the United States will be a said, lacks the power to impose such a program unilaterally...
...As such, the President has earned this year as a peace-maker and also show AFL-CIO suit amounts to the strongest challenge thus far to that we are neither ashamed nor afraid to use force when the the administration's five-month-old inflation program...
...No bus station in Lake Placid and the is dead wrong...
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...seeking voluntary compliance with its wage and price Now the United States is groping for a new posture in the guidelines, but it would emasculate the program by removing region, one that will both preserve the reputation that the the only official sanction against violators...
...of a wide spectrum of penal experts insists that the FBP is a To secure federal funds an "after-use" for the Olympic growth industry dedicated to increased taxes, budget, staff, facilities had to be guaranteed...
...Real take-home pay is increasingly homes, violates even the Bureau's own standards for location eroded...
...Special two-year rate: process in a recent Foreign Affairs, managing an "empire" which it has acciden$35...
...The combined STOP unemployment, lobbied in Albany and Washington and got forces (Stop the Olympic Prison, 3049 East Genesee Street, what to date has been a rather open-ended supply of tax Syracuse, New York 13224) will continue resistance until the monies...
...It has seemed Under present regulations the government requires that prudent that the United States should protect our interests in firms seeking government contracts of $5 million or more the Saudi Arabian oil fields during the recent invasion of certify compliance with certain standards, including a proviYemen by Soviet-backed troops from South Yemen, by speed- sion that it will not exceed seven percent for annual increases ing up arms shipments and by ordering the USS Constellation in wages and benefits...
...This is no easy matter...
...trouble...
...and inconvenience for the greater good...
...Now that we have arranged the peace, we must finance it-with both economic and military aid, at an estimated cost of $15 billion over the next four years...
...Yet how far at the bargaining table, and the unions complain that this should we go without sufficient public discussion, in establish- thwarts their right to free and unfettered collective bargaining...
...Anyone who Commonweal: 164 doubts the truth of this argument has only to look at the price of 1-50 acres of prime Adirondack Park land...
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