Running the republic
Carlin, David R.
bi-weekly Sendero, the official organ of the bishops' confer- priests and religious going to live in poorer areas has hardly yet ence. Its director, Ilde Silvero, told me that the paper's...
...to provide a space where all sectors of Paraguayan opinion can Significantly, these areas remain dominated by the local find expression...
...The major issue in my campaign this was ringing doorbells and driving my car But on the principle of not looking gift year is the issue of what to name a new from house to house, listening on my car horses in the mouth, I confirmed her in bridge being built over the west passage radio to snatches of the Red Sox-Angels her noble intention...
...What can we do about the insanWeltgericht will do...
...hoods of most Latin American cities...
...Whatever funds or ment's July prohibition of the director of the critical Catholic projects are channeled to them generally reinforce the paterRadio Caritas, Fr...
...she was pollutSenate...
...Yet I do it.in the afternoon of Sunday, October 12...
...summary is Whitehead's remark about 7 November 1986: 583 the history of philosophy being but a however, relatively few Italians in my mise of the Red Sox...
...administration is regarded with civilized people...
...It's just that the older a free lunch," with the result that I now sage is the one in which Jesus and busier I get, the less time and capac- know more essential economics than the sums up the Law and the ity I have for studying anything in depth, ordinary student learns from mastering Prophets in the two commandments, love and the more, therefore, I appreciate one- all the great theorists from Adam Smith God and love your neighbor...
...The bishop was giving his reasons for rejecting an sooner or later they will have to...
...The govern- agencies or for favors for their locale...
...ambassador Clyde Bishop Medina told me that since in Paraguay "there has Taylor and the opposition parties, and threats to cut off U.S...
...On a visit to a poor slum area on the outskirts of for a political liberalization and with a planned visit from Pope Asuncion, I was able to verify the absence of the grassroots John Paul next April, this at least is likely to change...
...would vote against all Republicans on the stantial numbers of the public who are (In New England in 1986 no politician November ballot.Though myself a convinced that we are up to no good - I can go wrong by associating himself as Democrat, I thought this might be a bit can't imagine...
...Every number highlights a controversial polit- branches or seccionales of the ruling Colorado party...
...This has the district, whereas 40 percent of my con- heard that the Reagan-Gorbachev sumincidental inconvenience of requiring stituents live on the island of Jamestown, mit in Reykjavik had broken up in failthat one know Plato...
...It's a hell of a way to run a republic...
...eyeballs in local politics, campaigning rightness of naming it after Jamestown I wanted to protest that she was violating for a fourth term in the Rhode Island and the wrongness'of naming it after Ver- Tip O' Neill's golden rule...
...For months my sum and substance of the thing is con- "The Jamestown Bridge" - which, political thinking had dwelt on nothing tained in Tip O'Neill's epigram: "All moreover, has for nearly half a century more profound than the name of the new politics is local politics...
...I can barely tell, for instance, the difference between M- I and M-2 (for a long time I thought they were rifles), RUNNING THE REPUBLIC and until the other day I had believed that THE RED SOX, REYKJAVIK, & RE-ELECTION David Ricardo was married to Lucille Ball...
...I the president or by the State Department...
...a man/woman, Jamestown- obvious pain...
...And thus it happened of Narragansett Bay...
...The score was now 5-4, Dave Henderson at bat, the count two and two...
...never been democracy or participation, what the church hopes aid...
...where we get paid $300 per year for a gracious in my rejection of Verrazano, But she rescued me by announcing session that runs from January to May or declaring that he, along with Roger that, by way of punishing Reagan, she June, and for a bonus get abused by sub- Clemens, was one of my boyhood idols...
...When Henderson hit the next pitch for a two-run homer, they went wild, promising to vote for me on the grounds that I had brought them good luck...
...were free and fair elections to be held tomorrow, the seventyBy making its own a call by the weak and repressed opposi- four-year-old Stroessner would gain around 60 percent of the tion parties for a national dialogue between all social forces in vote...
...The best I could manage was to of writing, I happen to be up to my study before I was able to discern the stand there with a stupid look on my face...
...The crowd in the house was in no mood to hear my electoral pitch, but they invited me to watch the game with them...
...With growing pressure dictatorship...
...She had just series of footnotes to Plato...
...In terms of formal training, for example, I confess to being an economic ignoramus...
...So I'm sure there's where the new bridge will touch down: ure...
...she asked in room for a still better summary...
...Such is the material local politics is made of...
...Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Why any rational being should razano, who in any case already has a ing the pure stream of local politics with want to be in the Rhode Island Senate - bridge...
...At the same time, I have been the muddy waters of international affairs...
...In the case of Paraguay, this has thirty-two years, and the release of all political prisoners...
...unfair to my GOP friends, including my why anyone would want to spend four or The most memorable fifteen minutes opponent, who, to the best of my knowlfive months campaigning for this thank- of my campaign this year took place late edge, is not regularly consulted either by less position every two years...
...What can we do...
...What can we do about In history, Hegel's Weltgeschichte ist ers want the new bridge named, for un- Reagan...
...spent a couple of weeks in Narragansett A visibly upset woman answered the .A few minutes later I picked up a few Bay about the year 1520 while in the door at the next house...
...The Sox, trailing three games doubt a tragedy for the human race at named, for understandable reasons of to one, were down 5-2 in the top of the large, gained me an extra vote, thereby ethnic pride, after Giovanni da Ver- ninth...
...There are, she was distressed by the imminent de- where four or five people were watching the Red Sox game on TV...
...As Bishop Medina put it in an editorial pate, Bishop Medina is confident that emerging opposition in Nuestro Tiempo: "We don't see in the intention of the sectors within the party will participate...
...An Italo-American American League Championship Series that the Reykjavik failure, though no weekly based in Providence wants it fifth game...
...been the name of the old bridge that the bridge, so I couldn't slip my brain into On this last theme I qualify as some- new one will replace...
...At first I figured more votes when I walked into a house employ of Francis I of France...
...invitation to visit the United States...
...This prefer- or two-sentence summaries that capture through Jack Kemp...
...Commonweal: 584...
...This, I ical or social issue...
...three more outs and they had lost proving itself to have certain redeeming razano, the Florentine navigator, who the pennant...
...ence, however, should not be taken as a the essence of some vast and complex In philosophy my tentative preferred sign of any particular inclination toward discipline...
...Only now are a few PEADAR KIRBY pastoral agents beginning to visit these areas in an attempt to (Peadar Kirby is an Irish journalist currently working with begin Bible reflection groups, while the phenomenon of Noticias Aliadas/Latinamerica Press in Lima, Peru...
...the country, the church this year moved to center stage in Since the sudden ditching of long-time U.S...
...Despite the government's refusal to partici- some skepticism here...
...Virtually to...
...Javier Arancon, from re-entering the coun- nalistic image of General Stroessner...
...to achieve by the dialogue is that people accustom themselves Having firmly supported General Stroessner, this apparent to an interchange of ideas and to dialogue as rational and change of heart by the U.S...
...What is network of neighborhood groups, self-help projects, and basic less clear, having missed almost three decades of political Christian communities which characterize the poor neighbor- development, is what the future holds in store for Paraguay...
...allies Duvalier Paraguay's political life...
...Even less can I imagine closely as possible with the Red Sox...
...This and in favor of civil liberties and of respect for the human is what the government does not want to see or admit, but person...
...qualities...
...Yet we could do worse, I suppose, than to have semi-crazy people like myself running themselves ragged trying to get votes on the basis of bridge names, the Red Sox, and the failure of arms control summits...
...Yet despite these surface deficiencies, I have meditated deeply on that golden saying, "There's no such thing as MY FAVORITE New Testament pas- charity on my part...
...Its director, Ilde Silvero, told me that the paper's role is happened in Paraguay...
...coolness towards dictators included a call for an end to the state of siege, in force for Pinochet and Stroessner...
...the gear required to talk about arms conthing of an expert, since, at the moment So it didn't require a great deal of trol...
...But no...
...Of the government, he United States the sincere and disinterested desire to really help says: "They may have the power now, but they'll have to start the Latin American peoples in their struggle against poverty handing it over because things can't continue as they are...
...DAVID R. CARLIN, JR...
...As for politics, the derstandable reasons of local pride, ity of the arms race...
...One foreign priest who try appeared, however, as a warning shot to the church on its has worked for over twenty years in Paraguay assured me that support for a more critical media...
...included growing contacts between U.S...
...In his letter of invitation to the gov- of Haiti and Marcos of the Philippines early this year, attention ernment to participate in the dialogue, Archbishop Rolin has been focused on growing U.S...
...Beyond the opposition role being assumed by some bishops, For too long Paraguay has been hidden and unknown to the however, the church has suffered from the thirty-two years of outside world, Bishop Medina told me...
...recent numbers have dealt with divisions in was told, is the only political party known by the poor, and it is the ruling party, the isolation of Paraguay among its now to the party they turn for help in their dealings with state democratic neighbors, and police repression...
Vol. 113 • November 1986 • No. 19
