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I Contents Volume CVII, Number 4 Correspondence 98 Editorials 99 Waste not, want not: William V. Thomas l 0 ! Another U.S. triumph: Frank Getlein 102 Evangelical politics: Michael W....
...negotiator for SALT II Paul Warnke pointed out in the Washington Post, we should be disappointed by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan but not particularly surprised...
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...A new National Intelligence Estimate is said to predict that without SALT Soviet rockets in 1989 will be able to rain nearly 250 percent more atomic warheads on the U.S...
...should make every effort to encourage the Soviet Union in that direction...
...SALT is not a Soviet favor to the United States...
...The plaintiffs in that suit--primarily the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, joined by the Women's Division of the Methodist Board of Global Ministries--went beyond equal treatment arguments to challenge the Hyde amendment on First Amendment grounds...
...Since the immediate objective, restoring Medicaid funds for abortion, was attained, the plaintiffs, as well as the New York Times, Newsweek, and other custodians of liberal rightthink on the subject of abortion, hailed the decision as "eloquent," "landmark," etc...
...But ABSCAM casts even more of a cloud over the FBI and its mode of operation...
...triumph: Frank Getlein 102 Evangelical politics: Michael W. Foley 104 Who was in charge?: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr...
...After a long delay, the U.S...
...Indeed, in many ways SALT restrictions would bear more heavily on the Soviet Union than on the United States...
...Under present plans the U.S...
...But this should make efforts to prevent an out-of-control nuclear arms race more of a United States goal than ever...
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...AN END OF SALT...
...But how can we trust the Russians...
...SALT is a strategic accommodation in the most dynamic aspect of the relationship...
...He should indeed do so, and quickly...
...THE STING It is said that the ABSCAM sting operation has cast a shadow on the integrity of Congress, one unneeded after the scandals of recent years, and this is true enough...
...The U.S...
...National security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski put it this way after the Soviet move into Afghanistan: "SALT is not a favor to the Soviet Union...
...Such a novel theory,in our eyes, threatened not only organized Catholic participation in the political process but all religiously informed and supported efforts on behalf of general political objectives, whether right-to-life, civil rights, the abolition of capital punishment, or the support of Israel...
...people say...
...With a SALT treaty Russia would have about 6,000 rather than 14,000...
...Entrapment may be difficult to define in a strict legal sense, but to the ordinary citizen this case certainly looks like nothing else...
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...Even if the enactments under challenge reflected one religious view, he wrote, that "would not be decisive...
...Why stop with the handful implicated in the news stories--why not go on and tempt every Congressman and Senator...
...No one, remember, has been indicted for any offense, let alone convicted...
...would have only a fraction of this amount...
...Wisely, the State Department has announced that the U.S will continue to abide by the terms of SALT 1 and SALT II pending ratification, provided the Russians do the same...
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...Despite our opposition to abortion and our sympathy with the notion that federal funding remains one of the concrete places where one can confront the growing social legitimation of abortion, the Hyde amendment does raise complicated questions of equal treatment...
...The leaders of the House and Senate would be wise to move forcefully in removing suspicion...
...The two-thirds vote needed in the Senate simply is not there...
...District court in Brooklyn has decided McRae v. Califano...
...RIGHTS OF RELIGION One year ago Commonweal raised an alarm about McRae v. Califano...
...Indeed, if the Russians were the fellows in the white hats, SALT would be unnecessary...
...Originally that court case challenged the Hyde amendment's ban on Medicaid funding for abortion on grounds of unequal treatment for poor women...
...SALT II would limit the USSR to testing and deploying only one new type of missile and a maximum of ten warheads on missiles capable of carrying thirty...
...Nary a word was said about the establishment question they had earlier made much of...
...As chief U.S...
...The right criticism of SALT II is not that is goes too far but that it does not go far enough...
...Indeed, the whole procedure has a bad smell...
...108 The Junta and the trade unions: William B. Gould 111 Dance: Don McDonagh 1 ! 6 Screen: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...I Contents Volume CVII, Number 4 Correspondence 98 Editorials 99 Waste not, want not: William V. Thomas l 0 ! Another U.S...
...distressingly, it has already been suggested that the United States is ready to use tactical nuclear weapons in the Persian Gulf area...
...From all accounts, the FBI started not with a genuine crime but with a fishing expedition, completely out of the blue...
...silos could be smothered, thus taking away their deterrence power...
...The United States and the Soviet Union are certainly not friends, but we do have one thing in common: a desire for survival that is threatened by nuclear holocaust...
...Nonetheless, SALT should not be killed...
...As Pope John Paul II said recently, "Only two hundred of the fifty thousand nuclear bombs that are estimated to exist already would be enough to destroy the major part of the largest cities in the world...
...Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome but cannot be considered or returned unless accompanied bya stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...Warnke pointed out, SALT negotiations were carded out after the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia and while Soviet-supplied weapons were killing American soldiers in Vietnam...
...Given the fact that a .S.-Soviet confrontation becomes more likely every day, SALT is more necessary than ever...
...In his words, "Soviet incursions into neighboring states have had the periodicity of twelve-year locusts--Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and now Afghanistan...
...We cannot...
...The Estimate indicates that by that date 29 February 1980:99 the USSR could have 14,000 highly accurate warheads mounted on their land-based missiles aimed at the United States...
...Yet various accusations complete with lurid details have been supplied to the press and spread all over the front pages...
...Then there is the question of the targets...
...Pointing to the clear religious motivation and church involvement in both the anti-abortion movement and the legislative debate leading to the Hyde amendment, the plaintiffs declared the amendment an unconstitutional establishment of religion...
...We do not want to sound paranoid, but perhaps it is necessary to tell the FBI in a forceful way that this is 1980, not 1984...
...As for cheating under SALT, the Russians might be tempted, but SALT provides means of checking for compliance...
...We don't need a SALT treaty with Great Britain...
...In fact, Judge John F. Dooling was firm: "The argument from the establishment clause must be rejected...
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...How can the slow process of legal justice possibly catch up with the publicity...
...Do we really want to encourage such a procedure...
...and Canada, $20...
...It is precisely the ever-present danger of nuclear confrontation between the two superpowers that makes SALT essential...
...D&ente has suffered a serious blow, there's no doubt about that, but SALT should not be confused with d~tente...
...If that relationship was even worse than it is today, we would need SALT even more then, because SALT introduces strategic stability . . . whether there are Soviet troops in Kabul or whether Soviet troops are marching back to Tashkent...
...than they would if restrained by SALT...
...In the case of public officials who must stand for reelection, the procedure of calculated leaks is particularly unfair...
...Meantime, we should avoid nuclear bluster...
...It does...
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...Without SALT there is no checking for anything...
...Do we want the FBI spending a million dollars of tax money to tempt public officials into wrongdoing...
...Does that make any difference...
...Thus without SALT the Soviet Union could add the extra warheads to its missiles that would at least theoretically allow it to kill our land-based missiles...
...In any case, he reminded his readers, the Hyde Amendment reflected a view represented Commonweal: 100...
...Unless we are to see our world in ruins around us, the nuclear arms control process must continue...
...The action of the USSR in Afghanistan suggests strongly that we are in for a period of increasing tension, which without arms control suggests an ever greater danger of nuclear war...
...Television cameras were waiting outside the house of Senator Harrison Williams hours before the FBI arrived to inform him officially that he was the target of a probe...
...it should be kept very much alive...
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...Why these targets and not others in Congress...
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...Meanwhile the rest of us should be thinking about the role of the FBI in this nation's political life...
...President Carter is probably right in thinking that ratification for SALT II is out of the question right now, given the present climate...
...Support for the SALT process should not be confused with any notion that the Soviets are basically good guys who are simply misunderstood by the world community...
...Attorney General Civiletti says that he is moving to investigate the sources of the obviously well scheduled leaks and that he will punish the offenders severely...
...TH THOUSANDS of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, this might at first seem like strange time to talk about SALT II...
...The decision finds the Hyde amendment unconstitutional, largely on equal tr.eatment grounds...
...j; Books Religious Book Week Choices: Arthur J. Moore, Arlene Swidler, Marie Augusta Neal, Robert McAfee Brown, Colman McCarthy 119 Staff Editor: James O'Gara Executive Editor: Peter Steinfels Assistant Editors: Daniel M. Murtaugh, David Toolan Editorial Assistant: Anne Robertson Columnists: John Garvey, Frank Getlein, Abigail McCarthy, Thomas Powers Movies: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...Did politics enter into the choice of targets...
...It is not...
...What about public officials in the executive branch...
...Most troubling of all, though, was the way the news of the investigation was provided to the media...
...International tensions are high fight now, but as Mr...
...Under SALT, Soviet warheads could take out only half of our proposed MX silos, leaving half--enough to deter a Soviet attack in the first place...
...That did not provoke our alarm...
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...But the point of SALT II is that itis not based on trust of the Russians...
...How were they chosen...
...Without SALT, the U.S...
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