Correspondence
BEIL, ALFONS & INGRAM, RAY E. & GRIESGRABER, Jo MARIE
CORRESPONDENCE Agreeing to disagree Heidelberg, W. Germany To the Editors: Because I receive Commonweal five to six weeks after publication, I am late in addressing the editors' reply [March 25]...
...This is the meaning of the "Pax Christi...
...That those powers did not rearm, is, it seems to me, their historical guilt.' Regarding nuclear war, however, I see quite a new situation...
...I would hope the inquiry would also include and compare our present president's supportive relations with Mr...
...I am sorry to not quite agree with you...
...The remarks on "control of wealth, broadcasting stations, and other centers of power," and "Israel is subsidized by America...
...To the Editors: Virginia Bouvier's review of JacoboTimerman's CMe:Dea//z in the South [April 22] piqued my interest...
...Farrakhan and Bert Lance, let's also inquire into Ronald Reagan's acceptance of support from Jimmy Swaggart and Lyn Nofziger just for analogy...
...Especially for Christians, there is an obligation to afford confidence in anti cipation...
...I say "Right On...
...To the Editors: Peter B. Kovler's article ["Jackson's Candidacy: Tiptoeing Around the Questions," April 8] manages to damn Jackson with faint praise, and then suggest that lack of support by non-blacks is probably not racism, but rather "his ego, his past, or his foreign policy...
...I share many of her disquietudes about the book even as I affirm its power to communicate Chile's angst at not overcoming the Pinochet nightmare...
...Shamir...
...I cannot find a value that could justify such a slaughter, not even liberty in the Western meaning...
...ALFONS BEIL Jackson's defense Baton Rouge, La...
...I suspect if this donation had been from B'nai B'rith there would be no complaint, unless Jackson failed to mention the source of the funds...
...Cutting military spending 30 per cent and closer ties with Cuba...
...Botha and Mr...
...Second, while Timerman himself eventually suffered at the hands of the Argentine military, he is no unsullied saint of democracy, but was among those who initially supported Videla...
...We experience, as it were, the change from quantity into quality...
...When, in 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was concluded, the ancient Sis vis pacem, para bellum was changed into Sis vis pacem, para pacem...
...Pinochet was not spawned through spontaneous generation...
...After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Emmanuel Mounier wrote in his Esprit (January 1947): "Maintenant I'humanite comme telle va devoir se choisir et il luifaudra, de toute evidence, un effort heroique pour ne pas choisir la facilite, le suicide...
...I'm sure Jackson's ego is a stumbling block with many, primarily because he acts like he has as much of a right to be elected president as the other candidates...
...His past and current ties with Fidel Castro, Yasir Arafat, Lewis Farrakhan, and Bert Lance also evoke complaint...
...until a man is willing to admit to his sickness, he can't be cured...
...Jackson has his facts wrong...
...RAY E. INGRAM Which way Chile...
...Kovler complains because Operation PUSH received $200,000 from the Arab League...
...it (Israel) subsidizes South Africa," do raise questions that should not be tiptoed around...
...No tip toeing around here...
...Only the shared horrors of human rights tragedies in their neighboring countries have moved Chileans and Argentines to talk to one another...
...As for Mr...
...I differ with Bouvier and agree with Timerman that Chileans in recalling the past must go beyond nostalgia and search their history for the lineage of the current demon...
...in the world recognizes as the representative of the Palestinian people, should necessitate inquiry escapes me...
...he and his supporters are somehow as Chilean as Neruda-a painful statement to write...
...Precisely why a civil relationship with the premier of Cuba, and with the man every government (except Israel and the U.S...
...But in view of Hitler's rearmament, I was convinced that France and Great Britain were obliged to rearm against him who strived absolutely for war and the domination of the whole world, and for the extermination of the Jews...
...and I'm not even a political science pro fessor...
...Is it not true that deterrence supposes the readiness to put up with the horrible death of millions of innocent human beings...
...thrice painful to integrate...
...First, that an Argentine would dare prescribe for Chileans how to return to democracy...
...Third, Timer-man's worldview and imagery draw largely from the experiences of World...
...Washington, D.C...
...A wise man once said, "Racism is like alcoholism...
...Among the reasons Bouvier and other Chileanists and Chileans will have difficulty with the book is the author himself...
...Kovler and/or Commonweal would jump in and enlight en us as to how Mr...
...CORRESPONDENCE Agreeing to disagree Heidelberg, W. Germany To the Editors: Because I receive Commonweal five to six weeks after publication, I am late in addressing the editors' reply [March 25] to letters about the editorial on deterrence, "Maintaining Perspective" [January 29...
...On peut dire que sa maturite commence a cette heure...
...I, for one, would appreciate it if either Mr...
...I was very glad...
...Nuclear deterrence, therefore, I judge a sin that cries to heaven...
Vol. 115 • July 1988 • No. 13
