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CORRESPONDENCE Unmask t h e v i l l a i n ! New York, N.Y. To the Editors: In his article "Give Me Shelter" [April 19], John J. Piderit details the behavior of a Bronx landlord, "Mr. C.," who...
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...George Bush's outrage over the invasion was phony from the start...
...It is the only kind of life they understand...
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...JOHN J. PIDERIT Creed & c u l t u r e Philadelphia, Pa...
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...He filed an unwarranted complaint against an activist tenant out of "pure harassment," writes Piderit, who does not hide his contempt for this wicked exploiter of the poor and helpless...
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...Nor have I ever found reason to trust the political outlook and instincts of George Bush...
...The husband with an infection does not retreat to a cabin in the woods but takes similar precautions...
...You are, I submit, blinded by your own troubled wrestling with the just cause issue on the Gulf War...
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...The last thing the poor need is another patronizing program such as the one suggested by Professor Roy Brooks, where 1 June 1991:381 "Withheld any interesting statistics lately...
...not only did he fail to keep his promises, but he often harassed his tenants by withholding hot water--and sometimes cold water, including toilet water...
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...Wars never have the results expected by the participants...
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...If the full teaching of the gospel must be accepted before baptism, how is it that white people in South Africa who are blatantly racist in theology, philosophy, and practice, who violate the first and most fundamental law of Christ, love of God and neighbor, are eligible...
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...I urge you to continue coverage of poverty and related issues...
...La Belle again that "one would not subject his or her spouse to possible strep infection through close contact...
...What of those feminists and other women of our own times who, even for the sake of convenience, allow their own fetuses to be dismembered...
...Father Hillman has worked among the Masai people for many years...
...JOHN E KANE The writer is chair of the religious studies department at Regis College...
...I would be satisfied to have the church back away just a bit from its absolute condemnation of condoms--a condemnation which, as my article explained, is not related to the degree of its effectiveness as a disease preventive...
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...To the Editors: Your editorials and other comments on the "just-war" question in the issue of April 5 were somewhat amazing...
...To the Editors: In his article "Condoms, AIDS, and Catholic Ethics" [March 22], James F. Drane draws a comparison between controversy over the pill and controversy over the condom...
...but pointing to the lethal potential inherent in any sexual act performed by a carrier of the HIV virus, I would propose that temporary abstention from intimate contact is by far the lesser evil...
...A child with a strep infection is not isolated from family contact but educated to take basic hygienic precautions, including the use of barrier techniques when coughing...
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...She envisions a new culture of vulnerability, grounded in faith as resistance and "saturated with a deep love of lig...
...The effort and expense of promoting it would not pay off...
...or a more liberal translation might be: "There will always be some people who just won't get it...
...Above all I question the highly selective use of snippets from these sources by major advocacy groups of the left and (in the case of the Gulf War) the right...
...The common-sense response to a strep infection is to use barriers against transmitting the infection...
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...An important consideration in a couple's decision making is the strength of the partners' desire for one another...
...Since the condom is less than 100 percent effective as a birth control method, would it not follow that the device is not 100 percent protection against transmission of disease...
...abstention for the sake of the beloved would be the obvious choice...
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...Reh would tell people like the Masai and others that they cannot receive baptism until they accept and practice the full teaching of Jesus Christ on marriage...
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...If the condom is highly effective and not an absolute evil, why should the church itself become a barrier to its use as the only feasible way of preventing or lessening a deadly epidemic...
...Witness the thousands of disinherited and dislocated girls roaming around Nairobi...
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...In the name of protecting life, Drane asks the church to endorse a device which can in practice fail to protect it...
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...In Africa I found most women in polygamous marriages living with dignity, integrity, and fidelity, in great harmony with the other wives and having a profound and compassionate love for their children...
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...Suppose, for example, that a man with five wives leaves four and chooses one...
...Rather than erasing the sting of our defeat in Vietnam, the Gulf War can have equally undesirable and lasting effects...
...To be ethical, public policy must be effective...
...It seems Ms...
...They have been receptive to the word of God...
...Most often they have been instructed as a community, because their concepts and whole manner of living are communal...
...Or do we allow them to remain with their legal husband according to tribal custom, and live with dignity and integrity together with their children, in the way their mothers and fathers and ancestors lived...
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...Such a drastic change of life will be possible only in future generations, when their tribal culture ceases to exist...
...Missionaries have been rightly accused of imposing their Western style upon indigenous people, tearing away their customs and leaving them naked to be clothed with the pure linen of Western civilization in the name of the gospel...
...And yet, monogamy does not guarantee a woman's integrity...
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...Tucked away in the uncatalogued section of the William James Papers at Harvard is a letter from James to his personal physician and neurologistturned-psychoanalyst, James Jackson Putnam, which shows that William James was the author of the anonymous review that appeared in the Grazer Medizinische Vierteljahresschrift, and that the editor, a Dr...
...Why, then, I wonder, does Piderit allow the landlord to escape public disgrace by hiding his true identity...
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...Oberhuber, was a friend of Putnam's from their days at Leipzig under Meynert and Benedict, who had also been Freud's teachers...
...Successful businessmen like Joshua Smith and Paul Pryde have spent years exhorting middle-class blacks to put their money where their talk is...
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...It is as an extended family that they have been instructed and desire baptism...
...All the more, then, would one make the loving decision to abstain from sexual contact if death were a potential result...
...To them it is anathema to baptize individuals, even if a given individual wants baptism...
...Vietnam, our quasi-wars in Central America, and our invasions of Grenada and Panama have made many Americans skeptical, and deeply so, about our government's actions and the claims made to justify them...
...It is noteworthy that development of the anovulant pill gave rise to so many strong feelings precisely because it was the first method that seemed to be highly effective and to have no unhealthy side-effects...
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...Professor Drane argues for temporary use of the condom by resorting to the argument for the "lesser evil...
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...The Bush crowd's decisiveness on the war and its deliberate (calculated, determined, decisive) domestic policies favoring the wealthy are of a piece...
...To the Editors: The "War at Home" issue [April 19] gave much-needed coverage of the domestic crisis...
...If, as your editorial concludes, we need "politicians willing to risk," we also need editors "willing to risk" by naming this basic truth about our country--a truth, by 382: Commonweal the way, which the current pope has not been hesitant to name...
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...Such men, he believed, following Freud's theory, were only in love with their measurements and their instruments...
...What about the four wives who now have no husband and no support, who cannot return to their parents, who cannot marry anyone else, and who cannot now bear any more children--for them, the only source of meaning in an adult woman's life...
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...While I agree with the overall point of your lead editorial ["A Risk in Time"], I think you are significantly wrong in suggesting that "the nation's leaders have chosen not to choose," and in saying that "an exception must be made for the Gulf War...
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...They cannot claim the children they have borne, for children are the property of the husband who paid dowry at the time of marriage...
...Though "the system," as Piderit eloquently demonstrates, is unresponsive, the weapon of public exposure is one of the few that is still effective and can lead to change...
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...the condom does not provide 100 percent protection against disease transmission...
...We must, of course, be politic in our advocacy, not just radical in our denunciations...
...I find it a great disappointment that so many who opposed the war, instead of addressing the concerns of those who concluded, however reluctantly, that Saddam Hussein had to be resisted and sent packing from Kuwait, prefer instead to impugn their intelligence and to draw up a general (and again selective) indictment of American foreign policy and leadership as though that settled the question at hand...
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...They are a nomadic-pastoral people who are polygamous in customs and culture...
...Leiper's suggestion that George Bush is the puppet of the Arab oil tycoons...
...In both cases the real interests of the wealthy were and are at stake...
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...I do not think Father Hillman is proposing a new kind of marriage, nor is he proposing a theological justification for polygamy...
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...But I am also deeply skeptical about the Pacific News Service, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the myriad other newspaper, magazines, journals, TV news programs I see...
...That is, the inadequacy of the condom contributed to enthusiasm for the pill...
...La Belle would say, the answer is abstinence...
...What we are up against is not benign neglect or any failure to choose, but the clear and calculated choices of a powerful class at war with the interests of what Michael Harrington called "The vast majority...
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...No knowledgeable commentator on the Persian Gulf thinks that oil and money had nothing to do with our involvement there...
...CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 354) Israel, as though "glib clerical celibates" are appealing to this kind of precedent to justify temporary toleration of plural marriages...
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...the poor would be "tutored" in the fundamentals of social responsibility by, of all people, the black middle class...
...economic and political affairs conferred on the ruling families of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia by the "petrodollars" they control--a power that helps to explain why Mr...
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...Sometimes they only make an immoral act less harmful...
...And certainly to ask the church to endorse condoms is absurd...
...In this case, Mr...
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...Rather, he is trying to come to terms with a marital situation which exists among certain nomadic tribes with whom he works...
...How do we baptize them...
...The mortgage repayments caught up with me...
...In a thinly veiled slight to all objectors, the letter ends with a quote from Friedrich Schiller, "Mit der Dummheit kiimpfen G6tter selbst vergebens" ("Against stupidity even the gods fight in vain...
...There is cause for suspicion about any line of reasoning that assumes that the urge to have intercourse is irresistible, that intercourse is a necessary means of getting through times of personal stress...
...If your editor brought these realities to a parish meeting, along with the plight of the refugees, some changes of opinion might be expected...
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...Suffering from a "strep" infection, one would not subject his or her spouse to possible infection through close contact...
...James, traveling across Europe at the time in search of a cure for his neurasthenia, had slipped into Vienna on a secret visit to receive psychoanalytic treatment from Freud and managed to pass the review to the editor on leaving...
...Finally, I did not appreciate the example cited by Ms...
...Integrity can be found in other kinds of marriages honored by generations of culture...
...In both cases these interests have demanded and received decisive action...
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...but condom use presents a "window" of its own, which ought not be overlooked...
...When tenants complained, he maliciously tore out a TV antenna...
...To the Editors: In response to the letter from Ceil Reh [Correspondence, April 19], criticizing a remark attributed to Father Eugene Hillman, I wish to comment on the basis of many years experience working with Father Hillman in Tanzania, East Africa...
...The call for this kind of responsibility from blacks and the prospect that such a demand is in the realm of possibility is a shocking notion to most whites, because they are unaware of the billions (yes, billions) of dollars eamed annually (and legally) by American blacks...
...A hemophiliac's or medical technician's "window of vulnerability" to infection is cited by Drane as justification for use of the condom...
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...To the Editors: If, as your editorial ["Beyond Racial Politics," April 5] puts it, poverty, crime, and violence deprive millions of American blacks of"what is necessary for human dignity," such dignity will not be restored through more government good will...
...I would have expected more skepticism on the part of your editor-in-chief, particularly in view of the invasion of Panama, our sales of strategic materials to Iraq (which continued up to the day of the invasion of Kuwait), and the British role in creating borders in the region without concern for the desires of its people...
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