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...Henry Kissinger intimated as much in the 1984 pronouncement that arms control theory "is now at a dead end...
...And today, just as in 1981 when the "zero option" in their place...
...than cities...
...he because of head trauma from seizures...
...6 June 1986: 325 first proposed, critics question whether the revived maneuver soup line...
...has not had "any coherent theory of what arms control is supposed to two-year rate: U.S., $49...
...If you can't a message about the kind of sophisticated programming run a business the American way, by selling ads, then you like by writing out that check tonight...
...Nor are recycled or cosmetically changed policies...
...Contents Volume CXIII, Number 11 commoaweal Correspondence 322 Editorials 323 Selected memories: Barbara Harrison 326 Exploiting grief: Jan R. Costello 327 As the synod nears: Abigail McCarthy 329 Second thoughts on Libya: David R. Carlin, Jr...
...We watched the real tiger move stealthily, fluidly something about this market...
...has committed a $59...
...weapons, Schelling contends that neglecting to ask the crucial question - what is 6 June 1986: 323 the character of a weapon...
...It might Regina de Cormier-Shekerjian, as well have been...
...It's been a long time since anyone caught and devoured...
...into an ad than into all the sitcoms and cop shows comBesides making us feel guilty and telling us that they bined...
...beautiful people...
...sprang and raced into the water, whence dozens of an- You see, the people who grooved on Woodsrock now telope fled in panic...
...preferred an Ann Beattie story to a Ralph Lauren ad in The "What's he doing now, Daddy...
...counter decisively any Soviet misperception of U.S...
...family like Sesame Street and Mr...
...Griffin saw Leib several days later at the Catholic Worker Within war there are codes of conduct and acceptable Commonweal: 326...
...And why should we...
...And it would provide proposal as "fatally flawed...
...a new target group...
...OUT OF REACH Something is terribly amiss...
...Yet, Griffin writes, for a place where we can stop...
...It differs only in that the very Movies: Tom O'Brien missiles it deployed in Europe are now part of its elimination scheme...
...drama was unbearable...
...It is a consensus about the need for basic direction, namely: that Stage: Gerald Weales 344 the only way out of the impasse is to rethink .our goals and objectives...
...so did Strobe Talbot in his reflection, on the INF and Books START talks, that the U.S...
...It occurred to me that Marianne I won't even take a fee for this quality consultation...
...whether unwittingly or planned - of making arms negotia- On the other hand, not every issue falls equally under tions a driving agent of the arms race...
...The likelihood that Mr...
...Furthermore, since that time the U.S...
...a seizure...
...FolGriffin had known the thirty-eight-year-old Leib over the past lowing a seizure and a trip to the hospital's emergency room, twelve years...
...I don't and obstacles to arms control...
...The question of nuclear testing, for MX as a "bargaining chip" failed to spur negotiations with the example...
...all people concerned capsules, a doctor's appointment, a referral to the Municipal about human dignity and human promise must confront the Men's Shelter, and a subway token...
...So much for Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, Patricia Mazzola the mule backing...
...It is a story excavation site...
...that should be read as parable as much as obituary...
...writes, "Blood cultures, X-rays, CAT scans, spinal taps, This is only the beginning of a journey of conscience that indeed the whole wondrous array of modern diagnostic tools will catapult the Austrian people into the realm of selfwas called into service...
...The contrast to the not-finally-tested but purportedly faster and best deterrence, therefore, is that which affords "reciprocal more accurate U.S...
...must the U. S. match the Soviet anti-satellite weapon tit for tat...
...Single copy, $1.50...
...how long they were willing to wait watch basketball with will even stop listening to me...
...So send us Badger and Marianne Mousetrap off camera...
...is it destabilizing or not...
...Oreven for "He's resting, sweetheart...
...We're people like you, people who care notes Schelling, "although it is not clear to me whether it is an about our communities and families...
...Julia Child fulfilling...
...and his family showed him care...
...The U.S...
...Other conclusions that can be drawn from Schelling: • It is a mistake to limit arms control to what can be accomplished by formal treaties...
...l integral to all national defense planning...
...An administration with no genuine interest in plan for limiting intermediate-range missiles (cited above) was Being a caring parent, I was watching that National Woodsrock...
...He concludes 3-2042...
...It's hot...
...Badger resembled the tiger...
...When Herman Badger wasn't original spirit of the ABM treaty, which would have allowed doing his tough-cop routine, Marianne Mousetrap was systems meant simply to defend land-based weapons rather being supportive...
...Believe me, it would really get those phones jingthem...
...There are just no long-term residential care facilities for So rethinking arms control probably won't pay off tomor- people like Gary...
...And I'll deduct it...
...Why, in the name of arms control,, vulnerability...
...design...
...I enthused...
...the true goal of all this expense and hard work, Gary's recovery and health, was put out of reach for want of proper housing and continued medical support...
...row...
...Chesterton once defined not as "looking for a the best medical care available - every exacting procedure, direction in which one can go on indefinitely" but as "looking every human effort, every penny spent...
...New Yorker...
...lacks vulnerability without increasing the other side's...
...But there he was found frozen to death the following morning...
...Several months afterward, Gary was again admitted to BelThe irony is that President Reagan is in a position better to levue...
...Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by Writing in Foreign Affairs (Winter, 1985/86), a pioneer of arms-control theory, Commonweal Foundation, 232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...arms Screen: Tom O'Brien 343 control community...
...genuine deterrence is mutual not unilateral The public television fund-raisers could use a bit of restraint...
...nuclear attack...
...As Griffin gering ironies and complexities...
...The Courage of Conviction: Karen Sue Smith 349 The U.S...
...But over the years, his life on Manhattan's streets - the hit-and-miss shelter, the make-do SELECTED MEMORIES clothes and meals, the acid of the vine - took their toll...
...Make the Soviets an offer they will inevitably reject, referred to by men in Leib's situation as a zoo - and was back to give the appearance of working toward arms control, in on the street...
...A comprehensive test ban, initial reluctance of this administration to take up the cause of even one mutually agreed upon without a formal treaty if need arms control, because of Mr...
...I Mousetrap sounded like John Sebastian, and Herman consider my proposal a public service...
...Isn't is placed in the powers of U.S...
...We know you're out there digging So I have a tip for public television...
...While the increase in the number of warheads that accompanied Send address changes to Commonweal, 232 MadiMIRVing understandably contributed to the preoccupation with limiting numbers of son Ave., New York, N.Y...
...This is a line taken by many defenders of SDI," "Who are we...
...In other parity in this category - regardless of the widely known words, the entire discussion rests upon the the belief that, in characterization of the slow and primitive Soviet weapon in the nuclear age, vulnerability is an inescapable fact of life...
...Over for another twenty bucks...
...Her stories are all about "He's playing with the antelope, sweetheart...
...He left the hospital with a bottle of Dilantin who must make this arduous journey...
...In doing so, it has virtually repeated its earlier proposal...
...It remains nonetheless the foundation for true progress, a Griffin points out that Gary Leib both received and deserved progress G.K...
...Gary had left the Municipal Shelter - commonly is a ploy...
...Suddenly the tiger one last shake of the little antelope's tail...
...And if there is any doubt about the Christian Spirituality: Margaret R. Miles 346 need for clear theoretical groundwork, the latest round of negotiations in Geneva stands as proof of the crisis in imagination...
...He could craniotomy had to be performed to drain fluid that had built up bargain for deep cuts in both U.S...
...Gary's assigned social worker told Reagan might actually pursue this course is, alas, slim...
...That proposal had required the Soviets to eliminate all Staff of their intermediate-range missiles from both Europe and Asia or else the U.S...
...Few are as dutiful as 1. Very through the jungle, and crouch near a watering hole...
...ity fund-raising for two shakes of a lamb's tail...
...how many left-handed people had re...
...When the Soviets predictaEditor Peter Steinfels Assistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue bly refused, the U.S...
...hence, has increased stability...
...has not only returned to the 1981 issue of intermediate-range missiles as the area for greatest progress in the current arms talks...
...But there are other arguments to At that point even the Scowcroft Commission neglected to be made to support negotiations for a comprehensive test ban consider the nontargetable, undersea Trident submarine as an treaty...
...How long would Badger weakness or even of a "perceived lack of competitive deter- berate us before some guilt-ridden soul in Cummington mination" leads into a house of mirrors - perceptions of called in a pledge...
...Again, within several months, he was back in the American right and present arms control as a measure in the neurology ward at Bellevue...
...It has been argued, though Schelling himself does Soviets, the U.S...
...As somebody in the public television target Geographic Special with my two-year-old daughter...
...He was once again coherent, and with medication, would choose to forget...
...second, the fact that each major the pound of flesh needed to convince the waiting world that effort to negotiate has followed upon outside pressures as arms control is an effort in good faith...
...Andrews 337 into a barn - most certainly wasn't made with arms'control in mind...
...Yet it is helpful to see how ideas might be applied...
...seizing the moment when the Soviets are ready and willing to In fact, is arms control currently being used as a pulpit to enter a test ban...
...Or at least a pulpit from uncertain, risky, and expensive - and the more complicated which the administration preaches restraint while its true faith the weapons system, the greater number of tests required...
...Bellevue has suffered from many stereotypes, but if Whatever the outcome of the election, which is virtually asyou were to ask a Manhattan ambulance driver where she or he sured at this point, allegations that Waldheim was a Nazi war would like to be taken, the answer would probably be Bel- criminal have prompted myriad questions and revealed staglevue...
...dollars by International Money crucial error by shifting its interest in arms control "from the character of weapons Order or by check on a U.S...
...To get back on the proper track, then, anti-satellite weapons (ASATs...
...Griffin notes this time things were more serious...
...felt obliged to deploy the weapon as not argue this, that in the past testing has resulted in the threatened, adding to its arsenal a destabilizing weapon, that is creation of more accurate, lower megatonnage weapons, and one both capable of and susceptible to a preemptive first strike...
...no longer knew what it wanted...
...Gary's final return to Bellevue was in February 1986...
...and over, Bob Decker keeps on calling the front office and It became clear that some consultant had put them onto bingo...
...Once she dropped a souffle • The president's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) does on the floor, scooped it back into the bowl, and comnot fit well the goals of arms control primarily because it mented: "One thing to remember about cooking is that in envisions a unilateral ability of the U.S...
...Worker house, tells of the life, death, and times of Gary Leib...
...order to achieve a calculated, self-interested objective...
...Roger's Neighborhood Schelling's overall argument is not immune to challenge, and tonight's National Geographic Special...
...The use of intravenous could limit anti-satellite weapons, chemical weapons, and antibiotics was required around the clock over a series of nuclear tests...
...He's right...
...You are really, really beautiful...
...has her head in the right place...
...Reagan's distaste for past be, could provide enough respite so that the question of redi- agreements, as evidenced in his description of the SALT II rection could be adequately considered...
...foreign, accomplish" since 1972...
...Canada, $53...
...position currently is the superpowers must consider how each side can limit its own that because the Soviets possess such a weapon, the U.S...
...Bargaining chips "You're out there, you freeloaders, enjoying quality turn out to be new, and unwanted, benchmarks in the arms race programming - without paying your fair share...
...10016...
...weapons tecnhology...
...By the time Leib first came The Waldheim affair to the Catholic Worker, a young man of the Vietnam era, he was already a chronic alcoholic...
...Telephone: (212) MU Thomas C. Schelling, re-enters the debate to show what went wrong...
...The local public television channel was con• The notion of "bargaining chips" and the argument that ducting its latest fund drive, and I was wondering "perceived inadequacies" must be repaired - whether or not why Badger kept referring to me as "out there" as though they are inadequacies in fact - are both dubious approaches to I were a cold front...
...Advertising Manager...
...that Richard Nixon had in regard to America's "opening" to Again Gary Leib was released, again to the Municipal China, the ability to overcome the diehard opposition of the Shelter...
...where I was, was "in here...
...Oh God, I can't live without Julia perceptions and, warns Schelling, "could be self- Child - please take my money...
...diverse as congressional opposition to the MX missile, the For the refocusing of the arms control discussion - so now quiet nuclear freeze campaign, the Catholic bishops' potentially helpful - is only valid if it is linked to real letter on peace, and the 1984 campaign issue of a summit with commitment and is not being used as an evasion: to dismiss the Soviets...
...There were respites...
...And she added sadly, of personnel in his administration...
...10016...
...A heavy emphasis on the need to know how you can look at yourself in the mirror...
...To catch the Lite Beer commercials, the guys I sponded that evening...
...There is stability better served by breaking the cycle of testing and certainly evidence to suggest that such is the case: first, the deployment while negotiating...
...More important, arms control should be 'M Herman Badger and I know you're out there...
...our capacities for simple care seem Bill Griffin, a nurse associated with the New York Catholic tattered and impoverished...
...wait for new technologi- to preach arms competition," Schelling says without naming cal breakthroughs to save us from the arms race rather than names...
...The route of salvation by technology is espouse the gospel of the arms race...
...When, for example, the Schelling's critique...
...He has the advantage in regard to arms control touch-and-go weeks...
...Here I braced myopportunistic rescue of ground-based missiles under the SDI self, as Marianne appeared to be the sort of person to use umbrella, a minimally defensible foot in the door for SDI, a caring as an adjective, usually to describe oneself...
...is what tions...
...One baby antelope was quickly enjoy advertisements...
...questions raised in the Waldheim affair...
...Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of That is why the current discussion among arms control experts could provide the Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly needed impetus to break the deadlock...
...and he does not take up with specificity many current quesCommonweal: 324 not only at the character of individual weapons, but at the arms limitation finds in arms control the best pulpit from which larger context...
...Ruth E. Taylor Of course, for real progress to occur, assessing the failures of arms control is not Publisher Edward S. Skillin enough...
...Don't let anybody well-meaning how beautiful it is to be schizophrenic...
...330 The summons to responsibility: RETHINKING David J. O'Brien .332 Lost innovation: Debra Campbell 334 ARMS CONTROL Abortion, pluralism, feminism: 338 T HE WRY observation about progress - that sometimes it's just a mule backing Verse: B.A...
...A achieve arms control than any other recent president...
...Just give us the old everybody takes green acid tabs, gets naked, and applauds ads we all love, like Alka-Seltzer's marshmallowed meatwildly when John Sebastian tells them what he thinks of balls...
...Like many people who come through the doors of such refuges, Gary Leib had a painful history, one which, except for fortune, might be the lot of us all...
...He was drinking and on the downhill...
...to the "position of strength" it needs to Poetry: Rosemary Deen negotiate with the Soviets, the new proposal is a rerun...
...Schelling is not the only critic to point out how limiting While the U.S...
...Take derailed arms control...
...King of your quarterly fund-raising drives should feature the best Hearts is about a bunch of escaped lunatics who show us of network commercials...
...All in the name of arms control...
...much less how to The Wild Birds/Collected Poems 1957- get it...
...Arms control can be achieved by reciprocal restraint - a point that the current SAVE THE TIGER administration has made as well, although a leading example, OF PREDATORS & PREY both sides' grudging adherence to SALT II, does vest on a negotiated treaty...
...He recounts Leib's story with that respect and he wandered out of the hospital itself and fell into a nearby attention characteristic of The Catholic Worker...
...Tigers...
...to ward off a Soviet the kitchen you're usually alone...
...The theoretical underpinnings of arms control must be rethought and then tested at the bargaining table...
...But back arms control strategies that Schelling calls attempts "to make to Herman Badger: things better by first making them worse...
...and Soviet arsenals...
...Just incredibly ling off the hook...
...Why should the U.S...
...But it is not only the Austrian people seizure-free...
...might argue against restricting ASATs on the weapons by number, or, as the SALT II treaty did, by number basis of other reasons, parity or the numbers game should not within a fixed category of land, sea, or air, has had the effect be the basis of such a decision by Schelling's reasoning...
...It Griffin that Gary was really discharged "to the street, because would take not only a change of heart on his part but a change I know he won't stay there [the Muni...
...The ads on MTV are so stylish you can't tell where care, public TV fund-raisers conduct ingenious conversa- the video leaves off and the sales pitch begins...
...hanging out in your 501 jeans North Adams...
...group - born after Sartre's Being and Nothingness and "Oh, Kaitlin, look...
...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...Yet again he was released, yet self-interest of both superpowers...
...again to the "Muni...
...A real tiger, before Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" - I know look...
...Yearly subscriptions, that, except for the self-restraint exercised by adhering to the SALT II proposals, the U.S., $28...
...will watch qual`'What's he doing, Daddy...
...Isn't stability better served in this instance by looking alternative...
...Griffin tells of walking into the neurology-neurosurgery BY A HAIR'S breadth, Kurt Waldheim lost the majority of floor of Bellevue Hospital in early 1985, where he was a votes needed to win Austria's presidency and faces a member of the nursing staff, and finding Leib in the middle of June 8 runoff against Socialist candidate Kurt Steyrer...
...What these pressures have in common is political current arms control efforts without substituting anything else power...
...ROBERT H. BELL I watched this fund drive faithfully because I am a (Robert H. Bell teaches English at Williams College, guilty, caring person who wanted to see Jimi Hendrix in and airs his humor on National Public Radio...
...In Woodstock or high-minded comment on these ads...
...Canada, $30...
...filip to advanced research, or merely an attempt to rescue the "We're all caring people who want to make sure that this president's image by showing that the concept of SDI, though station can afford caring programs - shows for the whole overblown and oversold, is not quite empty...
...few, in this era of remote-control tuners...
...went ahead with the deployment...
...A scaled-down SDI, of course, could be fit into the Julia Child's impishness...
...would deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe...
...Nice people watching TV commercials, Doesn't more talent go tiger...
...POSTMASTER: to their number...
...There WHAT TIME REFUSES TO FORGET followed lacerations, broken limbs, and eventually grand mal seizures...
...The hospital spared nothing in its treatment...
...foreign, $33...
...Like Tigger and Roo...
...arms The...
...Now, after five years of Smith, Patrick Jordan "getting tough with the Russians," after claims that steadily increased military Production Editor: Anne Robertson expenditures have boosted the U.S...
...ba tions to keep us tuned: whether or not they had heard from doop ba doop ba doo...
...Perhaps it was the result of another seizure...
...bank...
...Special U.S...
...Keep Herman flicks like The King of Hearts and Woodsrock...
...Still, the present arms control stalemate, all five years of it, Elisabeth Murawski, Larry Weirat~er 347 may yet solidify the one fragile consensus to emerge from within the U.S...
...After four weeks, Leib was examination, for Kurt Waldheim reminds them of a past most stabilized...
...Even while urging for effective arms control, Leslie H. Gelb, formerly of 1982/Standing by Words/Recollected the State Department and closely identified with the SALT II proposals, had to Essays 1965-1980: Brian Swann 345 admit: "Arms control has essentially failed...
...Our capacities for hi-tech Writing in the March-April issue of The Catholic Worker, treatment are prodigious...
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