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CONTENTS Volume CXX, Number 1 1 COMMONWEAL Correspondence 2 Editorials 3 Editor's notebook: Paul...
...His last letter to supporters called for a legal task force to help farm workers file suits against unscrupulous labor contractors...
...United States is now following Europe's lead...
...He founded the most successful and good man, Cesar Chavez...
...Though the UFW was/is must contribute troops and supplies to the UN peacekeeping still far from achieving its goals of humanizing farm labor, the forces...
...Clinton threatened airstrikes 4387, classified advertising correspondence to 15 to deter Serbian aggression while lifting the arms embargo against the Muslims, the Dutch St...
...but he continued to remain close to the rank and file, violence...
...Portland, Me...
...At the moment, we fear that that is the ver- couraged the development of a first-rate health-care plan for sion of peace about to be accepted by the United States and farm workers and their families, but he fought vigorously to its allies...
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...Unquestionably, recourse to effective military and diplomatic measures should have been taken during George Bush's watch...
...Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Russia and other UN members seem disinclined to step in...
...The United States, along with other nations, erwise-in every region of this country...
...Staff: Harriette Balsky, Carmen Alava, be worked out...
...The international community has decided otherwise...
...Small of stature, Chavez always stood out, A fitting tribute to Cesar Chavez was penned by his fellow even on an anniversary committee...
...they will eventually reach their goal of recognition by the agriHe had been in Arizona, making sure farm workers would get culture industry in the United States...
...George G. members of the committee, he lacked all worldly credentials (he Higgins, not long before Chavez's death...
...We too often lost many of his ablest co-workers and allies along must now face that reality...
...In Higgins's recently was not an archbishop, a governor, a university president, a fa- published autobiography, Organized Labor and the Church: mous writer, or even a college graduate), and his name was dis- Reflections of a "Labor Priest" (with William Bole, Paulist), tinctly Hispanic...
...On all counts, it is hard not to grant the point Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly except Christmas/New Year's: and share the outraged response of Besim Spahic, the mayor of Zenica, a Muslimand monthly July and August, by Commonweal held city: "Please do not talk anymore about civil rights, human rights, and freedom Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
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...Chavez himself never became a bigwig union leader...
...By most standards, Clinton's handling of this crisis has been indecisive and disappointing...
...protect farm workers and consumers alike from hazardous and harmful pesticides...
...Still, Mr...
...These are legitimate worries, and it benefits no one, not Christianity in the Twenty-First Century: even the victims of the brutal war in Bosnia, to minimize the possible consequences Philip J. Murnion 23 of contributing to their horrors by introducing more weapons or more troops, even Sex, Art, and American Culture: those flying the UN flag...
...timidity guided by a narrowly construed sense of self-interest...
...That being so, it becomes the responsibility of that community-the U.S., the Europeans, the agricultural workers' union in U.S...
...That is certainly the conclusion drawn by the Bosnian Serbs, whose reactions and statements exhibit that odd combination of relief and scom for Clinton and the West typical of bullies from the school yard to the battlefield...
...ground forces have been ruled out by President Bill Clinton...
...Display advertising correspondence should be sent to Ruth E. Taylor, of the twenty-first century...
...A GREAT & GOOD MAN Chavez was a man of faith as well as of action, and his life and achievements cannot be understood apart from his Catholicism...
...Unlike the other twenty-five sixtieth-anniversary committee member, Msgr...
...It in the post-cold war world, nearly everyone failed to see how is true that he could be high-handed, and that he offended and politically complex and morally problematic it would be...
...by any moral or legal standard-including just-war criteria-the Muslims should be allowed to defend themselves...
...in a lifetime of them...
...Now, faced with Bosnian Serb military and political inEditor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels transigence, the international community has all but abandoned the effort to negoManaging Editor: Patrick Jordan tiate a cease fire and roll back Serbian military gains...
...All that is hypocrisy and nonsense...
...His apparent effort to forge Commonweal 4 June 1993: 3 a multilateral policy has ended up looking dangerously like U.S...
...04106 (207) 799- After several weeks of diplomatic fog, during which Mr...
...We continue to hold this view...
...We have previously argued that the arms embargo ought to be lifted...
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...When he died suddenly-and too soon-on he writes that "the men and women of the UFW believe that April 23, at the age of sixty-six, Chavez was still standing out...
...CONTENTS Volume CXX, Number 1 1 COMMONWEAL Correspondence 2 Editorials 3 Editor's notebook: Paul Baumann 5 Bang the drum-not: Catherine Walsh 6 Splitting shifts: Peter Downs 7 Migrating Anglo-Catholics: Paul Jaskunas 8 No ordinary museum: Liz Leibold 'McCloskey 10 Americans abroad: Abigail McCarthy 11 This museum is not a metaphor: The blood of Bosnia Paul Gediman 13 Screen: Richard Alleva 18 s Abigail McCarthy rightly reminds us (p...
...The monetary and maPublisher: Edward S. Skillin terial contributions critical to bolster the peacekeeping forces, and to safeguard the refugees and those still living under Serbian siege are badly in arrears-the United Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of States being among the biggest debtors...
...He merits a special chapter in not only MexicanWhen Cesar Chavez agreed to serve on Commonweal's Sixtieth American history but in American Catholic history...
...That he did not, leaves the impression that, in the end, he did not think it was important...
...Certainly it is not the silence that falls over a land to live simply, to prod his union into new endeavors, and to whose inhabitants have been raped, tortured, murdered, and serve as the conscience of labor in general...
...It appears that fear of unintended consequences and the question of effectiveness have prevented the United States and Europe from BOOKS acting decisively in Bosnia...
...labor history, the United Russians, and other UN members-to defend and protect the Farm Workers Union, a multiracial, rank-and-file outfit that draMuslims...
...alism that is uncommon and a willingness to attempt new venThough no one imagined that peacekeeping would be easy tures...
...Cunningham 28 For all intents and purposes, Bosnian Serb aggression, including the essentially genocidal practice of ethnic cleansing, has succeeded-in part, because the world STAFF has stood by and allowed it...
...in a very Anniversary Committee in 1984 it was but another generous act real sense, he bridged the two...
...Viva Cesar Chavez...
...The Vance-Owen peace plan, Associate Editor: Paul Baumann which envisioned the division of Bosnia-Herzegovina into ten semi-autonomous ethProduction Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell nic provinces under UN protection and the return of Serb-occupied Muslim land, Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt appears dead...
...Indeed, if things continue as they have, Serbia and Croatia eventually will Stage: Gerald Weales divide most of Bosnia-Herzegovina between them...
...will stand as a tribute to the heroic commitment and determiDespite his gentle appearance and humble beginnings, Chavez nation of rank-and-file farm workers, and to the vision of a great was a born, tenacious organizer...
...Peace is not simply the absence of the way...
...No Western power or combination of powers is willing to commit the Business Manager: Richard Haas Design: Emil Antonucci kind of force necessary to reverse the course of Serbian aggression against people Screen: Richard Alleva and land...
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...Those troops should be used to protect civilian enclaves, spirit of solidarity among its members is unique in present-day patrol the borders between Bosnia and Serbia, and Bosnia and American labor...
...Still, the halfhearted measures that have now emerged as Christopher Thomas 25 an international response should themselves raise the same specter of unintended Religious booknotes: Lawrence S. consequences...
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...Viva la Causa...
...He not only endriven into exile...
...Thus protection of civilians in safe havens is now a matically improved the lot of farm workers-unionized and othmoral imperative...
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...Poetry: Rosemary Deen The fate of the Bosnian Muslims now hangs perilously on the maintenance of Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, "safe havens" by UN troops, with critical details of manpower and resources yet to Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...intervention Stage: Gerald Weales 19 abroad should, but sometimes does not, take into account the iron Media: Frank McConnell 20 law of unintended consequences, the natural limits of our comPoetry: Miriam Finkelstein petence, and the dubious motives sometimes underlying even alLou Ella Hickman 22 truistic gestures...
...Clinton never made a serious attempt to explain to the American people why halting the bloodshed in Bosnia was so important, not only to the Bosnians but to those who will fall victim to nationalist and ethnic violence elsewhere...
...To be sure, Clinton inherited a deteriorating situation...
...And if or when they do, it at least a portion of their earned and proper recompense...
...Pamela Quatse Britain, France, and Canada, with troops already there, have not volunteered more...
...Predicated on various strata of Catholic social Croatia, and enforce an embargo against the Serbian and teaching and Gandhian nonviolence, the UFW retains an ideCroatian forces in Bosnia...
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