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...De la Madrid infusion to curb inflation and lower interest and exchange rates himself is not doing poorly either...
...Set up a multi-million dollar fund from which the private sector could borrow at reduced rates for investments in Mexican industries in order to stimulate both foreign investment and LIBERTY'S LIGHT the reinvestment of exported capital...
...Such is hope...
...deterioration of the nation which will affect U.S...
...nationwide euphemistically described as "medically uninThere are, in fact, two specific areas on which the Senate sured...
...It was the care the dying Lazarus received in Circuit judge in Chicago...
...Racism...
...In appears to turn on ludicrous points - and ideological ones - arguing for a senatorial discussion of their ideological leanthat is because the man has no substantial legal accom- ings, we are not, as we wrote last January 31, proposing "carte plishments on which the debate could turn...
...Here, as if suddenly coming to growth is to be expected...
...This collaborative restructur- flame...
...anti-Communist efforts...
...The wrote Hawthorne...
...Let's be honest," says the presithe heart of her family that several years later led this Catholic dent...
...Reagan's two the Judges...
...A fire was then lighted in my heart," ion is that he does conform to the ideology of the right...
...Mexico, neither labor nor the opposition parties are in a posiPerhaps the invitation by President Reagan to meet with tion to offer viable alternatives to the PRI (Institutional RePresident De la Madrid in August will serve as a palliative to volutionary Party...
...do in addition to any short-term rescue lasting incentive to plug the leak, this is a long-term goal...
...For a moment, feet and eyes stop, compelled by an monweal, June 20) recommends $20 billion in capital infusion inverted green Niagara ascending relentlessly to the golden each year for the next five years...
...The Supreme Court has been at the heart aware of the problem...
...Maria Elena, a Mexican-American mother of accusations concerning ideology come from people who are seven who never went beyond the sixth grade, is a migrant just not willing to acknowledge or examine their own...
...Perhaps in the coming storms, withstood toIn keeping with Commonweal's usual summer gether, an enduring patina will emerge...
...p. 396, Ron mercial lenders have confronted Mexico with proposals for domestic cutbacks Jaudon, Rothco...
...ManIsland in the East River...
...cover and p. 402, Bas, Tachydromos, Greece...
...tance without meddling or presuming to know how to solve Sustained economic growth in Mexico will increase the another's problems...
...The dangers and opportunities which lie just below the • Offer to purchase oil for the U.S...
...The newly cleansed face of the Statue is copies of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms, belikely to remain seared longer, a symbol of the divisions we cause the law declared unconstitutional involved publicly pur11 July 1986: 389 chased copies of the Ten Commandments while Mr...
...Of course, mother on the Staten Island Ferry as it neared the fog- ideology can signify a closed, all-encompassing worldview, enshrouded Statue, "They say the Lady in the Statue is dead...
...Unfortunately, Rehnquist's support of Three factors account for most of the increase in people "judicial restraint" in the recent cases involving homosexual- without a way to pay for health care...
...measure, introduced in the Indiana state senate, only involved Nominees Rehnquist and Scalia have many merits, not the privately donated copies...
...date on Mexico's deficit to investment of flight capital and To step off the debt treadmill will mean using outside capital even deposits from the illegal drug trade...
...Constitution or in nineteenth-century practice, and which has In her famous poem "The New Colossus," Emma Lazarus always led to a good deal of disingenuousness...
...Yet this need not because of the huge disparity between the two nations' wealth mean continued one-party domination...
...Global interdependence is a factor here that defies simple solutions: consider how Books Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC's overproduction of oil is adversely affecting Mexico as another oil producer, but how welcome the price drop is for heavy oil Synod Extraordinary: consumers like the U.S...
...which strangled any capacity for economic growth even before the oil price slump...
...If the debate about Mr...
...All along, the torch of Liberty and the structure of death and life mingle...
...bankers - not to mention all the Movies: Tom O'Brien rest of us - more than even a total loan writeoff...
...The only qualification of Mr...
...tonin Scalia...
...requested by Jackson...
...Justice Rehnquist, in particular, is known for writing opinions that seem less like a A GROWING HEMORRHAGE judicial weighing of complicated arguments than an advocate's brief...
...JUDGES & IDEOLOGY Jingoism...
...How might secrecy be lifted and as trouble spots...
...I set my whole being to endeavor to bring Wall Street Journal (June 24, 1986) rushes to defend Mr...
...described the Statue as "Mother of Exiles...
...they are not Rehnquist's explanation that this had merely been an exercise eligible for Medicaid, and unable to afford private insurance...
...agencies, President Miguel De la Madrid must be wondering just how Mexico fell from its dubious distinction as "model debtor" to be regarded as "ne'er do well 11 July 1986: 387 neighbor...
...in editorSeveral years ago a small child was overheard telling her ials, it's usually a four-letter word twice over...
...Maybe that's why we considering the ideology of presidential nominees for federal don't have a very nice place with all the commodities...
...Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, If there is any rerun to be seen, it is this: while experts agree that no short-term Janice...
...Racism is a stain that marred the medical care but didn't get it...
...resistant to argument or evidence and churning out answers to For some, no doubt...
...Manion least of which is their dissatisfaction with Roe v. Wade...
...These political concerns and other internal soothe the ill-timed accusations by Senator Jesse Helms, im- pressures for land reform and diversified exports simply can= plicating a member of the De la Madrid family and another not be brought about through outside intervention or pressure...
...The real objection to Dan Manion is that he doesn't convert, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to begin working conform to the liberal ideology of some senators...
...Second, it is increasingly common rights rationale and could provide the needed nudge for a for employers to hire people for less than full-time, in order to rollback on racial equality...
...President...
...In the morning, she is a welcoming the right shoulder have been disjointed, two-feet askew...
...banks), cost of reconstruction after the recent earthquakes, Modern Science and Human and now a staggering blow to its major export, oil, must be seen in the context of a Values William R. Ayers 412 steadily growing population dependent on ever skimpier resources and a growing political disaffection spanning all classes...
...And here the question of ideology becomes more But it would be healthy if the Senate made it clear, as Sen...
...knows, it demands prodigious struggle...
...It isn't...
...p. 407, drawing from The Art of G.K...
...Government prosecution of bank merit a prominent place on our foreign policy agenda, what employees easing money-laundering is now being stepped up about Mexico...
...One is civil rights...
...It is com- sideration" in the Senate's exercise of confirmation, just as it monly said, therefore, that their confirmation by the Senate is in the president's exercise of appointment...
...what they'll do about it in an election of the struggle to repair that national evil, and though progress year is an open question...
...avoid providing health coverage...
...For true equality has yet to be achieved...
...ownership, that can amend domestic business inefficiencies, In times of crisis, good neighbors stand by, offering assis- modernize industry, and contribute to the GNP...
...Rehnquist's appointment to the out any coverage are working people and their dependents...
...Not only has the total Mexican deficit grown, from Screen: Tom O'Brien 405 $80 billion to $97 billion, but the political debt - accrued during the austerity programs imposed after the 1982 bailout - has come due...
...Judge Scalia has appeared more willing to uphold conservative principle even N THE Pacific Northwest state of Washington, Senator Jim when it might not serve conservative "result...
...In the evening she can become a vious restorations failed to diagnose the problem, much as the stern guard...
...Both nominees are men of pronounced conservative political philosophy...
...The Report of the monumental size and symbolism, its momentous, symphonic Inter-American Dialogue (cf...
...In Scrabble, "ideology" is an eight-letter word...
...p. 395, Rita Corbin...
...Three-fourths of those withThe 1971 hearings on Mr...
...the long-run shifts necessary to produce sustained growth...
...no health insurance...
...According to accounts in the to stimulate economic growth...
...tions of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Libya, Angola, and Af• Consider what might be done to discourage capital flight ghanistan - countries defined by the Reagan administration to this side of the border...
...They are among the 37 million people Both nominees need to be examined on this score...
...The next issue will be dated Alexandre Eiffel's substructure - to which Frederic BartholAugust 15...
...Altogether, this is what jeopardizes the Staff stability of the nation sharing a 2,000 mile border with the U.S., a border uniquely peaceful by Latin American standards...
...consolation to the cancerous poor...
...if we didn't have a thing to worry about, we wouldn't have this Bit by bit, however, senators are beginning to challenge the feeling, this kind of belief that's so powerful that we want to conventional notion that they must limit themselves strictly to make social change and fight for justice for the rest...
...Yet Mexico is not just any other petitive businesses...
...gained the most from Mexico's plight: from the ifiterest paid to For its part, Mexico will have to set its own house in order...
...toward racial equality may no longer be as centered in the Action, if it comes, would not be premature...
...but only sent that group thanks for the condolences it expressed From it she could see the Statue in the distance...
...Contents Volume CXIII, Number 13 commonweal Correspondence 386 Editorials 387 : d s ~ A growing hemorrhage: Nancy Amidei 390 Political immersion: Janet Scott Barlow 392 Nursery screams: Robert H. Bell 392 More than coincidence?: Abigail McCarthy 394 TROUBLE Earning & learning: David R. Carlin, Jr., 395 NEXT DOOR The next earthquake: ' Curtis Skinner 397 T FIRST GLANCE, Mexico's teetering on the verge of bankruptcy in 1986 looks Christians & the class struggle: like a summer rerun of its 1982 default...
...and should continue, but more supervision is crucial...
...De la Madrid's hints at a unilateral moratorium on interest Mexico must continue to open up the economy to outsiders, payments or the necessity of linking repayment rates to reducing state controls and protectionist barricades, monitorMexico's export earnings have met with stern dismissals from ing not merely the percentage of ownership held by foreign American bankers, lest other Latin American debtors grow companies, but allowing for and encouraging the most comenamored of the notion...
...Only then will LiberThe child and his mother stared again at the massive figure in ty's torch be fully raised, a sanctuary and haven for all...
...course, is whether the short-run political costs are too steep, intelligence report, the president deposited $162 million in a and whether the loans forthcoming are adequate to establish Swiss bank account in 1983 alone...
...But ideology can also mean nothing more than a well his parishioners in Peru refer to the Statue as La Virgen of the thought-out or deeply held political philosophy, and half the United States...
...She says of her life: "Maybe what Perhaps it's this use of ideology as a bad word that makes it God wants us to be is very simple, to be a symbol to the people so difficult to get the Senate to recognize the legitimacy of that we're suffering but can endure...
...Manion: No, he was not a member of the John Birch Society , Hawthorne's first hospice was close to New York harbor...
...and the IMF...
...It shouldn't be...
...Gates solution will do and that only long-term economic growth has a chance of forestalAdvertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Publisher: Edward S. Skillin ling another, possibly worse, crisis down the road, the media are full of glowing short-term rescue deals and lean on proposals for the long haul...
...restoration of fiscal credibility would provide the longestWhat might the U.S...
...She saw in the Statue perhaps more than its senators have called attention to the apparent lack of qualificacreators, who were merely celebrating the Franco-American tions - and even to the bad grammar and spelling - of some alliance...
...Expecially considering that U.S...
...In her short Mr...
...Chesterton, by Alzina Stone After taking the unpopular steps of complying with the multilateral financial Dale, Loyola University Press, 1985...
...The delicacy of the problem, of New Republic and the New York Times, based on a U.S...
...A Maryknoll priest reports that bars...
...Such a restructuring would also the rim of the Grand Canyon, one encounters the Statue's include an assessment of capital needs...
...The University of WashingThe second area is that in which the claims of national ton, for example, boasts that it has a generous policy on fringe security are pitted against those of individual citizenship...
...wonder...
...And it is the Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...The Senate rather easily accepted when they need full-time work), or unemployable...
...Ideological attitudes toward the state and financing - especially Medicare and Medicaid - have cut the demands of realpolitik will be extremely important if back on what they cover, how much they pay, and who Commonweal: 390...
...When Lazarus died of cancer the year after the Statue Reagan judicial nominees, most notably and most recently, of was unveiled, she left a remarkable impression on her friend Daniel Manion, named by the administration to be a Seventh Rose Hawthorne...
...di's copper sculpture is attached - had been improperly assembled...
...While the they must not obscure the other smoldering fires of Mexico...
...claimed by De la Madrid, or the relentless problems of illegal Capital flight enriches the few involved directly in it, both immigration and border patrol...
...Unemployment...
...blanche for simple political partisanship" ("Who Will Judge That is not the case, obviously, with Mr...
...been allowed to endure, a permanent reminder, like Jacob's "Shadow flattened the torch she bore to a black cross against limp...
...has said, that ideology is a "reasonable conthese individuals, or their personal integrity either...
...lenders have drawing boards is settled...
...Joseph A. Komonchak 408 But global considerations aside, reflection on Mexico as a nation reveals the The Iowa Baseball Confederacy/ obvious: its financial problems are of a piece with its social problems...
...were spikes of darkness roweling in the air," wrote Henry Perhaps the Statue's weakness, now repaired, should have Roth in his classic novel of the immigrants, Call It Sleep...
...government official in drug trafficking, or the latent preoccu- Finally, Mexico must deal with capital flight, a serious leak pation with fraud in the 1982 presidential election victory which leaves a trickle of capital flowing through its land...
...Reagan and other conservatives have taken to complifetime, Lazarus worked devotedly to aid Jewish immigrants laining about just this sort of disingenuousness...
...banks is much less than it was during the 1982 Production Editor: Anne Robertson default: 48 percent of lending capital then, compared with 21 percent today...
...and the Western economy in general...
...age always poised on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, it is But then, like quite a few other institutions, it deliberately and extremely easy - if one so desires - to rationalize all sorts of frequently hires people for 19.5 hours a week to get around the government controls as merely prohibiting shouts of "Fire...
...Yet, Poetry: Rosemary Deen Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, even a doubling of the price of oil could not correct all that ails Mexico...
...The Senate confirmation hearings for these two Supreme Court positions should be genuinely probing Health-care funding and, yes, ideological...
...Maybe judgeships - and especially for seats on the Supreme Court...
...According to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hearings should focus...
...Maybe questions of ethics and competence in deciding whether to that will keep us going" (Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell confirm judicial candidates - a notion without basis in the of Their Lives and Struggles, University of Michigan, 1985...
...Against the luminous sky the rays of her halo framers of the Constitution failed to deal with human slavery...
...These dilemmas are real, but lenders and creditors, but it impoverishes the nation...
...organizer in the Midwest...
...The bankers are cool because the amount of loan exposure Smith, Patrick Jordan to Mexico in the ten largest U.S...
...Manion's freedom is to survive its own defense...
...As Maria Elena flawless light - the blackened hilt of a broken sword...
...It is competitiveness per se, not foreign debtor, but our 80 million neighbors in trouble next door...
...will be virtually automatic...
...before...
...We, the Americas," Com- beauty...
...risen by a staggering 42 percent...
...It is on foot, approaching the frame, charging the lowest interest rates possible if regional Statue at the base from the rear...
...Conservatism, McDermott has been trying to persuade his colleagues in while declaring its opposition to government interference in the state legislature to do something for that state's estithe life of the citizen, has frequently displayed a good deal of mated 600,000 working people and their dependents who have reluctance to let the citizen interfere in the life of government...
...And third, all of the public sources of health-care in a crowded theater...
...package, rescheduling, or suspension of payments now being Internal controls are necessary immediately to restore the considered jointly by commercial lenders, the World Bank, government's political credibility...
...If these small nations farther from our land money be accounted for...
...The ideology of candidates for the Supreme latest judicial nominations - William H. Rehnquist and,An- Court or the federal bench must be weighed with other factors...
...p. Since 1982 the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and com392, Paul Valerry...
...No one questions the legal competence of both Simon (D-Ill...
...In four years significant John C. Cort 400 changes have taken place...
...Stage: Gerald Weales 406 While the 1982 crisis was brought on by overexpansion, financed by profligate Master of topsy-turvydom: borrowing during the oil boom in the late 1970s, the current crisis - set off by a Neville Braybrooke 407 slump in oil prices - cannot be blamed solely on government mismanagement...
...Yet for reasons of history and culture, and political stabilization of the government...
...The populasense to purchase oil while the price is low and while Mexico tion of Mexico City alone is nearly half the combined populacould use the dollars...
...The most impressive view of the Statue of Liberty is not • Jointly restructure Latin American debt as a whole, not from Fortune's yacht, the promoters' helicopters, or even the merely that of individual countries, over a 15-20 year time presidential reviewing quarters...
...lenders reported in Business Week Assistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue (June 23) seems myopic...
...And like the upon the death of his Bircher father (thanks in which, by the Statue, her hospice remains to this day, offering refuge at the way, he spoke warmly of the Birchers' role on the front lines of water's edge...
...This, we've seen Illustrations: Cover, Mexican turtle shell design...
...Liberal from Russia...
...p. 400, Mitro, Ta Nea, Greece...
...Time is of the essence...
...Paul interesting...
...Drugs...
...The abiding flaw in study, one million Americans were denied medical care in the American experiment remains the relation between the 1983, and someone in another four million families needed races, black and white...
...p. 398, Arturo Kremchs, Mexico...
...Congress is constitutional crisis...
...At least some scholars consider him distinctly BENEFITS MARCH TO THE FRINGE "result-oriented," an odd trait in view of conservative sensitivity about consistency of principles...
...Since 1980, courtroom as previously, any slipping back toward institu- the number of people without a way to pay for health care has tional complacency would be national tragedy...
...It makes reasons, not least of which are proximity and size...
...schedule, only one issue will be published each month During the centennial restoration, workers discovered that during July and August...
...First, many of the new ity and gerrymandering, as well as in many previous cases, jobs being created by our economy are low-paying jobs that do whatever its plausibility in those areas, echoes the old states' not include health benefits...
...No, Manion didn't try to circumvent The celebration will soon fade, fireworks and pious phrases a Supreme Court ruling on the unconstitutionality of posting ebbing from memory...
...In an benefits: anyone working half-time or more gets full benefits...
...Despair...
...Well, let's with indigent cancer victims exiled to die on Blackwell's be honest, Mr...
...and Mexico have shared a tradition of Skinner points out in his article (page 397) describing the mutual suspicion...
...Mexico's Dance Me Outside: stagnant GNP, trade imbalance, high rate of inflation, flight of billions of dollars of Steven G. Kellman 409 capital (mostly to U.S...
...She strides, breaking the chains of tyranny...
...Nuclear terror...
...However, as Curtis and power, the U.S...
...This despite the fact that Mexican- socio-political ramifications of the economic situation in Americans are the second largest minority in the United States...
...How many are left...
...The wonder is she remains so resilient and life's problems the way a vending machine pops out candy beckoning to so many others...
...In the Atlantic coast city of Constitution itself and provoked our greatest arld bloodiest Washington, D.C., there are signs that the U.S...
...Liberty...
...Editor: Peter Steinfels That is why the "low-key" reaction of U.S...
...ing could begin as soon as the short-term remedy on the She stands where the salt and fresh waters meet, where Commonweal: 388 cannot hide...
...Pregoddess, bathed in the dawn...
...strategic reserves from surface in Mexico deserve our undivided attention for many Mexico and/or consider purchases by private buyers...
...Court revealed that, as a clerk, he had drawn up a memo for The remaining one-fourth include the families of people who Chief Justice Jackson arguing that racial segregation did not are unemployed, under-employed (e.g., working part-time offend the Constitution...
...policy...
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