Editorials

...Our own hawks-including Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, the NATO high command, and dominant forces within the Pentagon-appear to be all but obsessed with the alleged need to continue basing NATO strategy on nuclear deterrence...

...Partial," said Mr...

...AN EDITOR TAKES LEAVE When we happily welcomed Dave Toolan, S.J., to the editorial staff in the fall of '79, we could cite the following credentials: degrees from Fordham, Georgetown, and Southern Methodist...

...In Morocco, Mr...

...The govern-ment may have cleared Tiananmen Square, but its legitimacy has been undermined...

...Qualified military analysts questioned the accuracy of this assessment even before the current process of political fission got under way in parts of Eastern Europe...

...Women's income accounts for more than 50 percent of the richest group's income growth...

...To the Palestinians he said: "now is the time to speak with one voice for peace....Amend the [Palestine National] covenant...

...Bush should be given due credit...

...A number of American Jewish leaders attending the AIPAC meeting were dismayed by what was described as Mr...

...The wealthy have always had more opportunities than others to increase their higher interest rates on large investments, multiple real estate holdings, tax loopholes...

...The agreement to discuss "partial" elimination of the missiles settles nothing...

...The proposal would ban gun sales not only to persons convicted of certain violent crimes, but to persons convicted of violent misdemeanors or serious drug offenses...

...Meanwhile, salaries at the lowest end of the income scale-where the international job competition has already had an impact-are down...

...Right: anywhere from 1 percent to 99 percent...

...ET CETERA CHECK IT OUT On the chance that you are not always and unfailingly a cover-to-cover reader, we call your attention to the very back of this issue, and request that you memorize the golden words you will find there: The judges' citations accom-panying some of the eight (count 'em) awards presented to Commonweal at the annual convention of the Catholic Press Association late last month...

...Baker's "blunt" and In keeping with Commonweal's usual summer schedule, only one issue is published each month during July and August...

...NATO still doesn't have an assured future...

...The intifada is one consequence...

...Bush himself is on their team...

...Yet in the words of Zhao Ziyang, then Chinese Communist leader, to Mikhail Gorbachev during his May visit to Beijing, "Political structural reform and economic structural reform should basically be synchronized...

...The numbers the Alliance has now put forward as negotiation targets are more impressive...

...his roles there in adult education, with the Harrisburg Defense Committee, and in ecumenical work...

...And the gap is destined to grow...

...Their rationale for continued deterrence by nuclear terror rests entirely on repeated invocation of "enormous" Warsaw Pact superiority in conventional forces...

...At this bitter moment, the people of China must take heart...

...SHOOTING IN THE DARK The upshot of President Bush's anti-crime plan is that once again the NRAhas outgun-ned the nation's police and its citizenry...

...The divisive issue on the table was what to do about the short-range Lance missiles in place in Germany: The West Germans want them removed, the "Anglo-Saxons" want them replaced with "modernized" weapons, meaning missiles with a range just barely within the limitations of the earlier East-West agreement banning intermediate-range missiles...

...Genuine solidarity is built year after year, layer upon sometimes bloody layer...

...ANTS & THE GREAT WALL There is an ancient Zen saying that an iron dike a thousand miles long leaks through anthills...

...Egypt is still at peace with Israel, yet it was "warmly" welcomed back...

...But the hawks face a problem...

...The list of critics he secured for the magazine is a distinguished one...

...Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir called the speech "useless...

...nine years of teaching theology at Canisius College in Buffalo...

...Crowing before sunrise At his first NATO summit, George Bush-recently described in these pages as the "invisible man" [May 19]-took on enoug substance to cast a shadow, at last, on the world stage...

...Contacts with these nations-commercial, cultural, educational, and political-will continue to exert tremendous pressure on China...

...Now the govern-ment's crushing response, executed in the name of order, may spawn further chaos...

...Before Brussels, NATO responses to Soviet initiatives on conventional arms were grudging...

...Its new long march has scarcely begun...

...in 1986, demonstrations were put down in more than twenty cities...

...In the generation to come, it will face the immovable horror and unalloyed anger of the Chinese people...

...In China, the iron dike of the government of Deng Xiaoping now leaks blood...

...For the most part, the Reagan administration supplied both kinds of backing...

...unsentimental" tone...

...warm words along with hard dollars...

...For the first time, but certainly not for the last, they spoke to and for broad segments of the 1.1 billion population...

...In 1978, protest leaders were given stiff sentences...

...and strengthened by a growing number of personal contacts with democratic societies abroad (since 1979, nearly 100,000 Chinese have studied in the U.S...

...not, it would seem, merely for years or decades but for generations to come...

...The complexities of comparing the strength of conventional forces are inherently great and easily subject to manipulation by any of the numerous parties involved-and some within NATO may be all too willing to take that road...

...families received 43.7 percent of all national income in 1987, while the lowest fifth received only 4.6 percent...

...allow schools to reopen...

...He did it by proposing a negotiating posture for the Western Alliance that calls for early, substantial, bilateral reductions in conventional forces on the European front-this as a precondition for talks aimed at "partial" elimi-nation of short-range nuclear missiles...

...Under Deng, there had been a 132 percent rise in per capita income in China between 1978-87, and the economy had boomed at an average annual rate of nearly 10 percent...

...yet again, the poor are getting poorer-right here in the U.S...

...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was scornful, and rather gleefully so, about the possibil-ity of reaching agreement on conventional arms reductions within the six- to twelve-month time frame proposed by Mr...

...rather than help Israel face reality in the occupied territories, the U.S...

...they turned on the Great Hall of the People and, in an act of astounding defiance, stoned it...

...Corporate executives' salaries are up, and some of the highest income families appear to have two of them...

...When women and men who are highly educated and able to command high incomes marry one another, their family income increases significantly if both work full-time...

...The latter report shows that the highest one-fifth of U.S...

...The dogma would be difficult to sustain in the wake of really significant agreements in the Vienna talks on conventional arms, especially if the agreements included intensive and "intrusive" verification procedures and were followed by major steps toward imple-mentation...

...Since wealth and its indirect benefits are easily passed on from generation to generation, the system for insuring ever wider income inequalities is quickly and fatally being laid in place...

...Bush, "means partial...

...Yet in 1989, on the same day as the blood bath in the square, Gen...

...CREATING A CHASM Once more, the rich are getting richer...

...stop settlement activity...

...The gap has been documented most recently by the House Ways and Means Committee and by Sheldon Danzinger, Peter Gottschalk, and Eugene Smolensky [American Economic As-sociation, May proceedings...

...His firm insistence, in discussing the missile issue, that there will be "no third zero"-we'll always have Lances, or something bigger and better-suggests that he is no more willing than Mrs...

...Baker was ad-dressing AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Commit-tee) at its annual conference...

...In fact, what happened in Brussels was, at least in part, the product of sleight-of-hand diplomacy...

...They not only burned tanks and their occupants...

...was smarter than this (see Commonweal, April 7...

...The need for more responsive political structures suddenly became a requirement that the government was not able to meet...

...That may have been the prudent way to go, the only resolution of the issue that could paper over the cracks...

...In real dollars (adjusted for inflation) this means the family income of the poorest dropped from $5,439 in 1979 to $5,107 in 1987...

...Dave must know that he carries with him Commonweal's warmest good wishes as he proceeds to the next stage of his career...

...Perhaps the most surprising finding of the two studies was that women's income was the primary reason for income growth at the top...

...and "Best Review Section...

...Baker in Washington offered evenhanded advice...

...Unless drastic measures-a truly progressive income tax and/or a system of significant child-care subsidies-are put into effect, the gap's negative impact upon our political and social lives will continue to be felt for generations to come...

...Israel, with reason to feel isolated in the world, is accustomed to moral as well as material support from the U.S...

...The family income of the richest increased from $61,917 to $68,775...

...Influenced by the example of "people power" in the Philippines...

...Over the objections of Syria and Libya, he secured acceptance by the League of Yasir Arafat's decision to meet American conditions for dialogue with the PLO...

...It won't do if one outstrips the other or if one lags behind the other...

...Will such agreements come to pass...

...If that is the case, his self-proclaimed triumph at Brussels will be modest indeed-certainly temporary, perhaps altogether illusory...

...TRUE FRIENDS AND FALSE Secretary of State James Baker said all of the right things...

...China made a necessary and fateful decision a decade ago under Deng when it opted for more diversified and rapid economic development...

...To the Israelis he said: "lay aside...the unrealistic vision of a greater Israel....Forswear annexation...

...In 1981, Deng praised Wojciech Jaruzelski for his imposition of martial law on Poland...

...Translate the dialogue of vio-lence in the intifada into a dialogue of politics and diplomacy....Reach out to Israelis and convince them of your peaceful intentions...

...There were social costs as well as benefits...

...But "can be" doesn't mean "will be...

...It is not only liberalizing events in the Soviet Union that have and will continue to force China to change, but China's contact with the market economies of the other major Pacific nations- Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the U.S...

...Thus, the gap grows wider...

...Putting the focus on conventional forces can be more far-reaching, and to the ex-tent it was his idea Mr...

...And, finally, a third-place award for "Best Single Piece of Promotion"-an ad designed by Emil Antonucci that ran in the New York Times Book Review last Labor Day...

...in 1989, the recourse was murder...

...Best Short Story," (Joan Sauro, "Death in the Convent...

...There were also four second-place awards in other categories, and we've decided to accept them: "Best Editorial...

...Jaruzelski was himself voting in the first democratic elections in Poland since World War II...

...It was a decision not to decide, to let both hawks and doves claim victory, and to postpone any fundamental choice of a future political/strategic course for NATO...

...Fired on in cold blood, run over by armored personnel carriers, bludgeoned and bayoneted, the students' weeks of nonviolent protest finally gave way to a violent response...

...There'll be a quiz next week...

...Best Regular Column" (David R. Carlin, Jr...

...and "General Excellence...

...Bush has described NATO's acceptance of this proposal as a "triumph" for himself and the U.S...

...Not only has the U.S...

...While Bush's plan would stop the manufacture, sale, import, or transfer of semi-automatic weapon magazines, it applies only to guns capable of firing more than fifteen rounds of ammunition at once...

...On these we wholeheartedly agree with the judges...

...alone), China's students engineered a well-disciplined, well-targeted attack on the corruption and restrictiveness of the Chinese Communist system...

...reach out to the Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights...

...The House study shows that the family income of the poorest one-fifth of the population declined by 6 percent, while that of the highest fifth rose by 11 percent...

...No one the world over better expresses the moral outrage of these events than the bleeding masses in Tiananmen Square...

...But the Danziger study suggests more complex developments in the increasing income gap...

...A triumph, it wasn't...

...But this tribute to Dave's expertise could obscure the abiding impact of his nine years of genial presence among us and the value to the staff of his unfailing encouragement and compan-ionship...

...nor does the planet...

...turned a blind eye on the proliferation of West Bank settlements, thereby encouraging belligerent complacency in the Likud, timidity and indecisiveness in the Labor Alignment...

...Best Poetry" (Dixie Partridge...

...The plan, announced on May 15, aims to ban permanently the import of semi-automatic assault weapons, but it allows domestic-made production to continue full-force, which constitutes 75 percent of the weap-ons sold in the U.S...

...We thought George Bush (or was it Barbara...

...The awards include three firsts, for "Best Election Year Coverage" (special thanks to Fred Siegel...

...These make up two-thirds of China's trade...

...Under Deng, the movement for popular political reform has repeatedly met with walls of resistance...

...Baker administered some reality therapy...

...Now that Dave is leaving, for the editorial staff of America, we point with pride to an impressive list of his achievements for Commonweal...

...The next issue will be dated July 14...

...The high quality he maintained in his review department has been re-flected in the number of awards we received for the review section from the annual convention of the Catholic Press Association, among them the first prize for excellence on five separate occasions in the 1980s, including this year...

...Never mind that you could be dead after number one...

...Yet when Gorbachev arrived he was welcomed by the populace not simply as a major trading partner or as the architect of a new Sino-Soviet detente, but as the "pioneer of glasnost" and "emissary of democracy...

...By declaring the notion of a "Greater Israel" as untenable as the hope of a "Greater Palestine," Mr...

...informed by the international news media, long-distance telephone, and the use of FAX machines...

...They and their supporters in the political-military-industrial complex contend, and perhaps believe, that eliminating nuclear weapons or even sharply reducing their number means resting our security on a policy of hopeful trustfulness-as though we do not now live in hope and trust that mutual assured destruction will always remain only a threat and not a reality...

...This is fantasy land...

...And then there's Michael Milken's personal salary and bonuses of $550 million per year...

...Compare $69,000 to $5,000, which are family averages...

...It worked, too...

...Mubarak thinks making peace both with Israel and among Arab nations is a good idea-and he said so...

...acceptance of the Soviet proposal to include aircraft among the weapons systems to be negotiated is another indication of dawning seriousness about the business at hand...

...The massive student demonstrations repeated in all of China's major cities this spring moved the nation to a higher and now painfully irreversible course of self-awareness...

...Yet there is no provision to bolster the effectiveness of the current pre-sale checking procedure...

...today, even to talk about trading land for peace rouses threats of armed insurrection against the govern-ment, and the settlers, dissatisfied with even the toughest measures taken by the army to contain the intifada, increasingly behave as vigilantes and dream of expelling all but the most docile Palestinians from the territories...

...Clearly, however, there are people in high places, including the president's cabinet, who don't want too much success in Vienna, and it may be that Mr...

...Because he did so, the U.S., for the first time since Jimmy Carter brought Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin to Camp David, acted toward Israel with the candor of true friendship...

...so did Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...

...Both men had hard say-ings for their audiences...

...But the Israelis, like the Palestinians, must do what no one else can do for them-make peace...

...Deepening polarization among Israelis is another...

...He has, besides, recently brought out an impressive volume of his own, Facing West from California's Shores (Crossroad...

...Baker concluded by reminding the Palestinians that they had the most to gain from pursuing peace, that no one else could do what they had to do themselves...

...In Washington, Mr...

...A denuclearized Europe, they say, means a Soviet-dominated Europe...

...For in China as in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the iron itself is in the ants...

...We shall greatly miss him...

...The resoluteness and sheer size of their efforts, with even the army initially showing a reluctance to put an end to the demonstrations, shook China's leadership as no upheaval has since the disastrous Cultural Revolution...

...Mubarak spoke before the Arab League as Egypt rejoined it after being expelled ten years ago for making peace with Israel...

...shifted from a manufacturing to a service economy, but national economies everywhere are quickly being replaced by "global" economies, which means for starters that a cheap labor supply anywhere is in the competition for jobs everywhere...

...Thatcher to see a nuclear-free future over the horizon...

...The plan, which should discourage the drug gangs who buy and use semi-automatic weapons, is full of holes, at least fifteen rounds worth.l of holes, at least fifteen rounds worth...