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...outrage comparable to those Mr...
...Screen: Tom O'Brien 111 HAT DO YOU do when Goliath refuses to be dispatched...
...This was wartime, and the parish priest was government as legitimate, and we are not about to do so in announcing that anyone who didn't want to venture onto the response to a little maneuvering and tinkering...
...The way indicated to us now is the way of nonviolent struggle for two-year rate: U.S., $49...
...The casualties of the election Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Plenty of opportunities for Washington pressure Our own answer must be brief...
...Meet- is the realpolitik argument that Washington should look only ing IMF conditions is also a prerequisite for hundreds of to the security of its Clark and Subic military bases...
...Should not the U.S...
...Instead, he tried to Religious Book Week Critics' shield himself with an election campaign full of threats, bribery, chicanery, mobiliChoices: Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Phyllis zation of the army, and domination of the media - indeed, all the habits of Trible, Robert C. Neville, Susan corruption that are the product of nine years of military rule...
...Aquino put the stone in her sling and let fly...
...we cannot set our strategic concerns largest trading partner, the U.S...
...streets was welcome to spend the night in the church...
...And as the Philippines' our military installations...
...Editorials 99 ;0 Voices in the night: Gene Palumbo 100 # ~~ A needless shortage: Nancy Amidei 101 r Prayer, politics, & doubt: John Garvey 102 Fighting with bare hands: Jenna Mariechild 104 WHAT TO DO A tangled revolution: Roger Parker 107 Dance: Don McDonagh 110 IN THE PHILIPPINES...
...A firm U.S...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S., $28...
...they pledge solidarity with those who are be paid in U.S...
...He had come to speak polls can never be technically substantiated...
...The second injured further by Marcos's burst of campaign spending...
...The third millions in new loans from commercial banks, banks which is the debater's gambit that critics of Marcos are inconsistent if have recently rescheduled nearly $6 billion in existing Philip- they oppose U.S...
...The first is the principled loan programs in view of "chaotic" conditions in the Philip- rejection of any U.S...
...POSTMASTER: willing to act so "that the will of the people be fully respected...
...Neither the taunts, nor the Christine Downing 116 censorhip, nor the thuggery, nor the sudden displays of government munificence, nor the love songs of the campaigning Imelda, nor the profits from the family's New Staff York real estate could finally suffice...
...dollars by International Money Order or by check on a U.S...
...intervention - non-military as well as pines - and the possibility that the nation's economy was military - in the internal politics of other nations...
...Given the the operation, some had been killed, others wounded, and support she was able to mobilize - against formidable odds, many more captured...
...Aquino represents a rare quantity: a A third lever involves focusing national and world attention genuinely democratic, moderate force enjoying real popularon the safety of leaders in the Aquino campaign and Namfrel ity...
...influence must be judged by their purposes, by the circumexample would strengthen the Japanese and other allies to stances, by the likely consequences...
...That likelihood would be considerably decreased by an official VOICES IN THE NIGHT expression of U.S...
...But the Philippines is a nation where Washington's Salvador on the evening of January 26, Archbishop John blessing counts for a lot...
...The $59...
...We do not recognize this doing the same...
...Aquino while the presidentially controlled Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of National Assembly has certified the victory of Mr...
...Other forms of already hesitant to renew to the Philippines...
...Contents Volume CXIII, Number 4 common Weal Correspondence 98 waiilia...
...But he did not step aside...
...They said that of the civilians who had been caught in for compromise and an adherence to principle...
...Yet, despite these evil acts, we are morally certain the Publisher: Edward S. Skillin people's real will for change has been truly manifested...
...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions must bishops do not outline a plan of resistance...
...The IMF has already delayed action on several pines...
...Aquino, an untested leader whose claim to victory at the twelve hours he'd been in El Salvador...
...capital...
...It struck home...
...Telephone: (212) MU for the inexcusable waffling that followed the election and be at least as forthright as 3-2042...
...Pos- STANDING NEAR THE DOOR of St...
...In effect, the bishops have certified the election victory of Mrs...
...Reagan) should make up New York, N.Y...
...It comes in three versions...
...Aquino or the winner of U.S...
...They spoke of aerial bombardments and ground atAquino has displayed a promising mixture of both a capacity tacks...
...son Ave., New York, N.Y...
...Do these suggestions exaggerate American influence...
...Obvi- face an unusual situation...
...can exert any number of more directly athwart the rising aspirations of Filipinos for selfsubtle pressures on the Filipino business community, which is government...
...Marcos's exit...
...Mrs...
...Francis church in San sibly...
...Although the press may soon be swinging back increasingly coming to recognize that their own interests and from its present enthusiasm for the underdog, and Americans those of Mr...
...be considered or returned unless afcompanied by a One combination of carrot and stick is directed at the Marcos family itself and stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...provincial opposition leaders were murdered...
...nonetheless, Mrs...
...Even as President Reagan, in a nationally televised should be unmistakably in her camp, not skulking in Goliath's, press conference, was declaring American "neutrality," four and not pretending to stand on the sidelines...
...We could encourage the Inter- a national leader...
...Not, of course, is published biweekly, except monthly Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by because the bishops demand it (they don't...
...Now that he is had just seen and heard...
...Movies: Tom O'Brien "These and many other irregularities point to a criminal use of power to thwart the Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, will of the people," declared the Filipino Catholic Bishops' Conference in a Patricia Mazzola Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor remarkable statement...
...but because democracy and our longCommonweal Foundation, 232 Madison Ave., term national interest demand it...
...Only grave considerations of here, as there are in the matter of sizable loans that Japan is national security justify armed intervention...
...bank...
...But should the U.S...
...Several...
...Send address changes to Commonweal, 232 Madi- do as much...
...The thirty counters who, shaken by Production Editor: Anne Robertson Poetry: Rosemary Deen the mounting discrepancies, linked arms and ran out of the tabulating center in a fit Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, of conscience, risked not only their jobs but their lives...
...intervention" on behalf of democracy in the Philipa fair election...
...foreign, $33...
...Evilio Javier, who was hunted down, shot, Report from San Salvador and killed, was a long-time opponent of Marcos, yet Marcos spokesmen blamed Communist insurgents for the killing...
...Marcos...
...The U.S...
...10016...
...delega- at a church-sponsored peace forum...
...He did not, however, fall on his face to Assistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue the ground...
...risk such an implicit endorsement of Quinn had already heard a good deal about the war in the Mrs...
...Canada, $30...
...But the American deci- to go home for the night...
...he only (National Movement for Free Elections) who may face assas- needed one...
...In the Philippines, we make their lending contingent on a Marcos abdication...
...On election day, February 7, Mrs...
...But before delivering his tion of poll watchers, led by Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, talk, he had met and spoken with two peasants who said they actually estimated her share of the vote as between 60 and 70 had just fled a major army operation fifteen miles from the percent, an amazing margin...
...Washington (read, Mr...
...Marcos has lasted as long as he Quinn of San Francisco was overwhelmed by what he has in part because he enjoyed that blessing...
...pine debts...
...Quinn was ready proval may provide the critical shove...
...Others at the church would not be sion must be clear and definitive...
...national Monetary Fund to refuse further loans to the Philip- There is, of course, another kind of objection to this sort of pines until Marcos is replaced by Mrs...
...now number over one hundred...
...intervention in other parts of the world...
...Marcos and Company are not necessarily the will learn that the Aquino coalition, too, has its feet of clay, same...
...He propped himself up through fraud Smith, Patrick Jordan and blatant vote-stealing and dubious tallying...
...Special the bishops...
...Carrot: free and swift passage to a safe refuge out of the 28 February 1986: 99 country...
...Editor: Peter Steinfels No doubt, President Marcos was stunned...
...And they added that other civilians were Commonweal: 100...
...Verse: Elisabeth Murawski 114 Last December Corazon Aquino reached down into the riverbed and 1 scooped up a smooth stone: the will of the Filipino electorate to be done with Books corruption and dictatorship...
...Democracy and a narrower realously, U.S...
...The U.S...
...Canada, $53...
...In the biblical story, David scooped up five stones...
...10016...
...Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, The United States should make the same choice as the bishops...
...assets of the Marcos family despite government-controlled media, under threat of violence as investigations of their extent and sources proceed...
...The Philippines could be swept by a wave of "disappearances...
...Aquino may need a handful more...
...Mutilated bodies of ten more opposition leaders were reported the following day...
...Stick: freezing the U.S...
...Shultz THE ARCHBISHOP CAME TO LISTEN addresses to Middle Eastern "state-sponsored terrorism...
...Aquino has demonstrated her stature and legitimacy as A second lever is economic...
...Like the Philistine giant Annette Muto, David Herlihy, Kenan B. Osborne, Diana L. Eck, Eugene B. of old, Marcos treated his challenger with scorn: a housewife, a naif, a person Borowitz, Drew Christiansen, manipulated by Communists or too weak to combat them...
...sination...
...It was like seeing the pages of the already on the skids, removing Washington's stamp of ap- New Testament come alive again," he said...
...Single copy, $1.50...
...What levers can the United States actually pull to support the Filipinos' choice Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome but cannot and pave the way for Mr...
...Instead, he began to flail about...
...economic and military aid can be held in escrow politick are happily coincident: we can call the Marcos bluff on until Manilla bows to democracy...
...their close associates...
...foreign, justice . . . active resistance of evil by peaceful means," say the bishops...
...Perhaps more important,, Mrs...
...President Ferdinand Marcos, out of the corner of his squinted eye, saw what was coming...
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