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...WILLIAM A. DONOHUE and letter-writing campaigns, and that his dity...
...You are correct that it "does not editorial on NAFTA, but it took a couple electoral college" consists of members adequately promote the rights of Mexican of readings to tell me why...
...McConnell the Easterner Guys: It's a show...
...FRANK MCCONNELL 1994 (negotiable...
...trying to make such contacts...
...agement is as opaque to the advocates of Agreement (NAFTA) ["Trading Up or It is, of course, up to the people of the public interest as the negotiating procDown...
...labor aspects...
...Surcharge for air mail delivery to Europe, North Africa, icans (including one written by me) by on labor rights...
...LINDA A. MORROW thing about "NYPD Blue" is not the rank watched "NYPD Blue," one of us liked it, sexuality, profanity, and violence, it's the the other didn't...
...Bottom line: CHARLES C. GALLAGHER we think McConnell is wrong about The columnist replies: Wildmon, and that Wildmon overstates his As Jack Benny used to say, Well...
...NAFTA & vote fraud states of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, and A better trade agreement among the Chicago, Ill...
...Send resume by Novemuality, profanity, and violence that mark Blue" on Tuesday nights at 10 P.M.-is a ber 15th: Search Committee P.O...
...The moral that "nationwide" means everything east choice to watch or not watch, read or not CLASSIFIED of the Hudson River...
...Exactly ductions of nihilism...
...I for one, a New York analogy used to ground your conviction what is wrong about what Wildmon is City dweller for thirty years and an auxthat the new "long-term, fundamental eco- doing...
...p. 36, Schwadron, Rothco...
...now relocated to Colorado, I'd be tempt- I repeat my point, which was also ed to think that some New Yorkers believe Milton's in Areopagitica...
...p. 28, H. Martin, Rothco...
...Single Copy, $2...
...economy but could also "accelerate its re- To the Editors: I read your editorial on MARTIN M. MCLAUGHLIN cent experiments in political reform...
...case against "NYPD Blue...
...This summer his negotia- Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...workers over Summer 1994 the past fifteen years by shifting operations Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry to exploit cheaper labor, I'd say the work- Ministry in Transition: Keeping Pace `%ith a Changing World...
...Canada, $71...
...McConnell, Kathleen Ilughes Dynamics of Catholic Worship in his efforts to prove to the world that a Joseph Konionchak Theology of Church serious Catholic can be just as hip as any- Claire Lower- Theology and Pastoral Practice: one else, is spreading the gospel of nihilism Integrative Colloquium Barbara Reid Introduction to the New Testament very effectively in his rave defense of Jon Sohrino Spirituality & Discipleship "NYPD Blue" ["Smart, Hip, and Real," October 8...
...p. 18, ©1992, CBS, Since Mr...
...p. 10, photo by Michael A. Smith, courtesy in this country...
...Substantial financial aid is available...
...Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, will ever declare that an election has been What is astonishing to me is that after all Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review fraudulent...
...July 25 - August 5 ego of Frank McConnell...
...Instead, Religious and Civil Rights, which styles me that the plethora of violence on TV is you repeat the tired litany of "rank sexu- itself an anti-defamation effort on behalf an influence for evil in some people, I agree ality, profanity, and violence" which of Catholics, might want to rethink his with much of Frank McConnell's review Donald Wildmon's people have promul- stereotypical and just-at-the-edge-of defamof "NYPD Blue...
...And will it be League for Religious and Civil Rights...
...For McConnell the worst matter of liberal Catholics: two editors tried it...
...Unlike the shifting of geological plates, world economic shifts are based not on nature but on human decisions open to human questioning...
...Under55...
...workers...
...Why not choose a gift that can efits...
...Of NAFTA with considerable interest...
...As the decisions of particular people, they can be questioned, contested, and blocked, especially by national govern- Boston College ments...
...M.E& C.A.E.S...
...Canada, $41...
...Ph.D...
...watch it...
...Foley wrote that, I have been ess for handling the three very limited kinds Inc...
...Religious Expression, passed only after such procedures are and the Gospel (617) 552-8440 solidly in place in the U.S...
...to Frank McConnell's enthusiastic report...
...I know this to be moting or defending their self-interest...
...Three-to-five year commitment, salary Catholics in any way support the rank sex- where Frank McConnell watches "NYPD $28,000-30,000...
...The next time they make this lame argu- is spiritually east of the Hudson...
...ings of the economic system must be questioned...
...ty-three-year resident of New York City, admit, for a responsible critique...
...Morrow, even take atory views about liberal Catholics...
...Moreover, the proc- Ticknor & Fields...
...vironment and labor-leaves much to be To the Editors: I was disturbed by your Since the majority of the new "reformed desired...
...I do not share your implied fering endured by the Mexican people, I state-party remains in control...
...I so from my many relatives and friends in agree with your judgment that "NAFTA- An analogy misleads Mexico, including one source holding even with its side agreements on the en- Jamaica, N.Y...
...homeland behind, and the difficulty of es- thousand-odd pages to protection of the tablishing contacts of a political nature be- rights of investors and holders of intel- Illustrations: Cover, Antonucci...
...of NAFTA by the Office of Technology how could anyone expect that this body Assessment is the most even-handed...
...You watch a show and trying to persuade oth- of cops in general and a former "Hill compared this economic movement to ers to join in his refusal...
...As a result, the agreement Central or South America, $35 per year...
...or a revitalizing sabbatical...
...same sentimental glorification of big-city liness for fame and money and calling it This kind of analogy tends to hinder re- misery and alienation that I stopped read- truth, and McConnell is urging us all to flection and action...
...the rights of workers...
...All Canadian and for Mexican-Americans of leaving the supplemental texts) devotes scores of its foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...In any right of free speech, much loved by lib• the Editors: Re: Frank McConnell's event, he did a public service by showing erals, applies with full force to Donald near-hysterical admiration for "NYPD what passes muster with liberal Catholics Wildmon's efforts at advertising boycotts Blue," with its violence, profanity, and nu- in the 1990s...
...Qualifications: Desire • the Editors: For years my liberal to integrate faith and justice, commitment Catholic friends have told me that it is ab- From the editors: Mr...
...must get before McConnell objects...
...Street Blues" addict, don't believe it for that of "huge tectonic plates" whose shift- I object to reading in Commonweal the a minute...
...bank...
...And you, Ms...
...Were I not a thir- it and won't: odd qualifications, you must you've got to defend all of us...
...If this is reform, God save that you could advocate ratifying NAFTA...
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...Neither found the show up show's critics...
...Copyright ©1993 Commonweal Three years ago (June 1, 1990), your tors tried to remedy the defects he found Foundation...
...McConnell the hysteric One wonders just how depraved TV Furthermore, the editors think that the Chicago, Ill...
...take up with his Mexican and Canadian The one statement in the editorial that counterparts before he makes the formal I must question asserts that NAFTA could NAFTA's fatal flaws submission to Congress that triggers the not only transform Mexico's third-world Arlington, Va...
...He is about optimism that the agreement will be manwas naturally fascinated by your editorial to designate his successor and is counting aged "correctly," particularly if that manon the North American Free Trade on NAFTA to bolster his position...
...fast-track legislative process...
...Yearly subscriptions, reviewer Michael W. Foley ended his re- in the agreement...
...As long as putative critics-and edCORRESPONDENCE though I was ashamed of McConnell's ucated Catholic ones at that!-fall for the (Continued from page 2) snide rib-nudging about the American old line that only the ugliest things are true, Family Association-this is political cor- we will have no defense against the sesumption in your thinking is found in the rectness at its worst, and cowardly...
...Through of labor complaints included within the p. 32, Ross, Rothco...
...high office in the government...
...It The writer, formerly with the United course it could transform the economy, but seemed balanced with respect to the loud- States Catholic Conference, is a consulthe "experiments in political reform" are est institutional debaters on the question, tant on food policy and development...
...I have not seen the show because I stopped watching TV completely Commonweal 5 November 1993: 37 buy it, or at least not to knock it till we'veMcConnell...
...Considering the misery big capital has inflicted on many U.S...
...Donald Wildmon, al- avoid...
...and at additional offices...
...judged...
...firms be taxed on relocating pro- Mary Boys Educating in Faith duction to places like Mexico, and that the Bernard Cooke Eucharist and Social Justice Boston College David Hollenhach Social Ethics money be used for job re-training...
...BOB ENNIS read, is yours...
...they are no more both of which, understandably, are prothan window-dressing...
...for other saying: "All three illustrate the importance now under consideration (including the parts of the world, $44 per year...
...I ask two questions: Where is the line The writer is president of the Catholic campaigns are fueled by the same agonistic in the sand to be drawn...
...These may be unrelenting but they are not irre- Imagine New Beginnings versible...
...read, I found your treatment one of the most attempt at national fraud...
...foreign, $77...
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...Competitive salary and ben- members...
...8, 34, Chartween Mexico and her sons and daughters lectual property, but not one paragraph to lot...
...Ennis: As every- to the poor, skilled administrator, fundraissolutely inaccurate to say that liberal one knows, Santa Barbara, California- er...
...299 Elizabeth St., NY, NY 10012-2806...
...Special twoview of three books by Mexican-Amer- in the environmental area but failed utterly year rate: U.S...
...October...
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...You are cor- us here to give the best possible informa- rent congressional review of NAFTA rect, for example, in noting that Mexico does tion about treaties and relationships...
...suggested improvements that he could human rights demanded of a democracy...
...Digest and Book Review Index...
...In fact, none of your letters in- president of the Catholic League for • the Editors: Even though my gut tells dicates that you have watched it...
...Contact the National Pastoral Life Houston, Texas 77002...
...foreign, $44...
...p. 15, photo by Phillip Caruso, courtesy Columbia Pictures...
...Stephen Bochco is peddling uging is "unrelenting and irreversible...
...Mexico from more reform...
...The key astaken from the majority in Congress, that workers...
...I think Robert lmbelli Foundation in Theology IREPIM the tax should be so massive that firms will Luke Johnson Lukellcts Department R think several times before moving and, fur- Chestnut Hill, MA Catherine LaCugna Mystery of the Triune God ther, that some relocation penalties should 02167-3931 Session Two: July 11 - July 22 go directly into the pockets of displaced Walter Brueggemann The Prophets: workers...
...Commonweal of course recognizes these problems, as is clear in your proposal that Session One: June 27 - July S U.S...
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...After ety, the show airs at 9 P.M., not 10 P.M., in pride in asserting that you haven't watched all, if you're going to defend Catholics, the Mountain Time Zone...
...Michoacan were thoroughly fraudulent...
...And it is up to In my view, the best result of the curaccurate and comprehensive...
...the Correspondence pages...
...July 11-15) To the Editors: I wish that Commonweal Week 2 Partnership in Ministry (July 18-22) did not see fit to provide a forum for the Session Three...
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...Box contemporary television and movie fare...
...As the Peruvian A year ago, during his campaign, 1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 writer Mario Vargas Llosa said two years President Bill Clinton expressed his reser- and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, Ohio ago, "Mexico has the perfect dictator- vations about NAFTA's environmental and 44691...
...Clair Introduction to Pastoral Counseling Special One Week Courses: July 11 - 22 James and Contemporary Issues in McConnell the nihilist Evelyn 1Vhitehead Pastoral Ministry Week I Spirituality & Sexuality in Ministry Bay Shore, N.Y...
...But just to be persnick- gated...
...North American countries is surely posTo the Editors: As a Mexican-American Now President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sible, but it is unlikely to occur if NAFTA knowledgeable about the poverty and suf- is engaged in a costly effort to see that his is approved...
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...I also think NAFTA should be or Calli Tradition and Imagination Virgil Elizondo Culture...
...I also agree that the assessment (Continued on page 37) is, from members of the state party (P.R.I...
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...Practicing Catholic...
...would be to return it to the president with not give the high priority to protection of JORGE PRIETO, M.D...
...Donohue, we wonder if the Manitou Springs, Colo...
...them I can assure you that, for instance, the purview of the supplemental agreement is 2: 5 November 1993 Commonweal five years ago, nor do I consider myself ing mainstream publications in order to a supporter of Rev...
...Master's Degree required...
...instincts that bring us all together here on McConnell who draws the line...
...And it is wrong to deny others that same moral choice, whether Position Opening by burning books or terrorizing advertisMcConnell the liberal The Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Midwest seeks ers before the show can even be seen and an executive director to begin in February, New York, N.Y...
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...You don't have to Finally, Mr...
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