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CORRESPONDENCE I'm with Mario New York, N.Y. To the Editors: I think David Carlin's point in "A Tragedy Without Villains" [October 6] that respect for even the potential per-sonhood of the unborn...
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...To the Editors: Bridget Balthrop Morton's reflections on adolescence, nonviolence, and racial perception ["Daniel: Beloved by God and by Me" October 20], point out the views of humans and the world that many of us go through in searching for an ethic by which to live...
...He was a sixty-four-year-old civil engineer who had spent eleven years in Salt Lake Have a blessed Christmas & a joyful New Year...
...I, too, have found myself ostracized because I don't support abortion on demand ostracized by those whom my collection of noble-losers buttons (dating back to Adlai Stevenson) ought to make my allies...
...Perhaps it is because I have felt growing life within me and I have seen in those I've known both men and women how painful a decision to have an abortion was, even though those decisions were based upon reasons anything but frivolous...
...The basis for the Court's support in the Missouri case was that the state is not obligated by the Constitution to provide such services free, especially "a service" so many of its citizens see as wrong...
...Terence MacSwiney, whom Mr...
...Indeed, his house was firebombed in 1964 while he and his family slept...
...Having said that, I admit I'm not terribly happy about the latest chapter in the Roe v. Wade saga...
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...In some ways, his death at the hands of Black Muslim henchmen was caused by his espousal of nonviolence as well as his disaffection for Elijah Muhammed's Nation of Islam...
...One has to learn to see abortion as a rite of passage or as the ultimate means of birth control, as some of its more zealous defenders seem able to do...
...The use offeree in behalf of a just cause, and for freedom, is not evil...
...He spent an hour proclaiming the virtues of the extermination of the Jews, expressing confidence that the world would one day thank Hitler for his benefaction...
...A little discussed fact about Malcolm X is that he underwent a profound spiritual conversion in the last year of his life...
...He had no illusions that his own life would be safe from a violent death, but he did not want his family sacrificed also...
...To the Editors: In "The Battle of Long Kesh" [October 6], Joe Wakelee-Lynch writes of the hunger strikers, and their ordeal...
...To the Editors: In forty years of reading Commonweal, I have not, until your October 6 issue, had occasion to write a letter to the editor...
...I put that in quotation marks because even after all these years I can testify that that is exactly what he said...
...During a trip to Mecca and Africa, he saw that people could live together no matter what color their skins...
...I find myself, therefore, still with Mario Cuomo...
...A couple of weeks later, at an interrogation center near Frankfurt, I was one of those randomly chosen to endure a face-to-face, one-on-one performance by a representative of the Goebbels propaganda ministry...
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...bad law apparently leads to bad redress...
...But, as Mary Ann Glendon has said, Roe v. Wade is a bad law because it is one-sided in considering only "rights" not all the other values involved in matters of life and death...
...In the struggle for racial identity in a nation tainted with racism, both points of view are necessary to cajole the complacent and salve the despair of those living in the promised land...
...Some never rise above being polemicists (Spike Lee), but a few become prophets (Martin Luther King, Jr...
...His experience of Islam as a way of life (as opposed to the racially restricted philosophy of the Black Muslims) showed him that despite their differences, humans could live in peace...
...Rather it is in standing against inequality and injustice that mankind has finally won, in recent generations in parts of the world, a share in equality, liberty, and freedom...
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...It seems to me that an unassailable definition of a bad law is that it is one only the poor have to obey...
...To the Editors: I think David Carlin's point in "A Tragedy Without Villains" [October 6] that respect for even the potential per-sonhood of the unborn is necessary to safeguard the basis of the freedom prochoicers honor is very well taken...
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...Riots ensued, and Britain sent in troops to restore order...
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...I have personal knowledge that there was indeed such an ideology...
...Lynch refers to as an "important IRA leader of the 1920s," was Lord Mayor of Cork when he was arrested by the British government and charged with possessing seditious documents...
...He died after seventy-four days on hunger strike and was publicly mourned throughout Ireland...
...The conclusion I come to is that the Poles are entitled to a piece of Auschwitz, and that the Jews are overreaching in claiming exclusive rights to it...
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...The call for self-defense was made in the atmosphere that allowed the Birmingham church bombing in 1963, and can hardly be considered radical coming from a man whose father was murdered by a white lynch mob in Michigan...
...On November 2,1944, the B-17 on which I was navigator was shot down on a raid over Merseburg...
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...It is good, as one of your correspondents noted, to know there are people on my side, too...
...JOHN BRANIGAN Poles at Auschwitz Providence, R.I...
...Now if the Germans were telling this to American POWs, surely the Poles must have gotten wind of it...
...After the repression of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement by the government and police in 1969, Irish nationalists fought back...
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...They were prompted by threats made on his family's life...
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...The solutions may not be any clearer now, but the cries for peace and goodwill do not always fall on deaf ears...
...I don't think this makes me anti-Semitic because most of the motivation I had for deciding to be a priest came from reflection on the horror of what that man had said...
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...Where is the genuine support for life in this decision that would give poor women the means to bear their children in hope instead of fear...
...Their activities had nothing to do with the Gandhian principle of Satyagraha or of passive resistance...
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...It's true that prolifers are much more aware of the spectrum of need that follows birth than they once were, but most of their efforts are merely part of the "thousand points of light," not part of the law...
...Then, he announced that once the Jews were done away with, the Poles would be the next to go because "they are obviously an inferior race...
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...They were part of the resistance to the British rule in Northern Ireland which subjected Irish Nationalists, (Continued on page 713) CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 690) from the beginning of that government in 1921 to the present time, to second-class status: discrimination in employment, searches, raids on homes, and internment without charge...
...Though I prefer stands, like his, based on thought, to those that flow from feeling, I find myself feeling not, however, so vigorously as many others prolife, too...
...But I found a statement in the excellent article, "Close Enough to Step on Toes," which needs correcting...
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...almost all of the people doing the deciding would classify themselves as prochoice...
...However, Daniel Morton needs to know that Malcolm X's words on the screen at the end of Do the Right Thing were not his final thoughts on violence...
...It is not, I think, an attitude that comes naturally...
...He would not recognize the British courts, and refused food while in jail...
...I am still horrified and will be to the end of my life...
...The world that Daniel and Ethan will inherit faces the same problems that Bridget's world did twenty years ago...
...From all of us al COMMONWEAL City and returned to participate in the thousand-year Reich...
...He went on to other exterminations that would follow once the Poles were eliminated from the human gene pool...
...The ten men died there not only for the principle of being declared political prisoners, but for the larger principle of the freedom of their country from Britain...
...I think I can guess accurately that this is common knowledge today in Poland that they too were scheduled for Holocaust...
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...I refer to Leon Klenicki's statement, "but there was not a national ideology leading to the destruction of the total Polish population...
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