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...riots, men and women the Progressive Conservative party...
...The les- had made while campaigning for leadership of British Columbia's son from Los Angeles is: we have a long way to go...
...In this campaign she demonstrated that a failed attempt REPORT FROM CANADA at charisma without substance is ludicrous...
...This is the measure of the unAlberta, however, the Liberals got only four seats...
...This was CHARISMA NEEDS SUBSTANCE made worse by a number of gaffes during the campaign, the most serious being a statement to the effect that a campaign is no place to debate serious issues...
...minish personal responsibility for acts to such an extent that application of the law itself becomes futile...
...majority to get rid of the Tories...
...Tory Progressive Conservative party, from New- advertisements ridiculed Chretien's proposals for job creation foundland to Vancouver...
...who not only obeyed the laws in a dangerously demoralized What does it all mean...
...The remaining seat went to the Reform in a race that fielded five major parties was also a factor...
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...The Tories tried and failed to depict him as Mulroney years failed abysmally in the October "yesterday's man...
...They must also pick their indictments with care...
...whether bridging the racial fissures in the nation's psyche can be advanced by such trials...
...Jean Chretien, the new Liberal Prime Minister Kim Campbell's attempt to res- prime minister, is an old hand, although at fifty-nine he is hardcue the Tories from the unpopularity of the ly over the hill...
...The Reform party had pledged to eliminate the deficit in gaining eight seats in Manitoba and five in Saskatchewan...
...In the Yukon, NDP leader Audrey weighed in determining guilt and then in calibrating punishment McLaughlin held her seat but the rest of the North went Liberal...
...Angry voters savaged her and the preservation of Canada's health-care programs...
...They are pledged to reneIn Ontario, the Reform party-an extreme-right, populist party gotiate the trade agreement with the United States (FTA), led by Preston Manning of Alberta-divided the already weak- particularly since the proposed NAFTA agreement gives Mexico ened conservative vote to give the Liberals an unprecedented some leverage over resources that Canada does not have in the sweep in Canada's most populous province: ninety-eight out FTA...
...At the same time that the Denny jury was deliberat4387, classified advertising correspondence to 15 ing, the leader of a white supremacist group in Los Angeles pleaded guilty to arson Dutch St...
...That space is now oc4: 19 November 1993 Commonweal...
...It is on such indi- Kim Campbell, projecting an image of youth (she is forty-six) viduals that the well-being of a society and a culture rests...
...That was what Stage: Gerald Weales Poetry: Rosemary Deen the jury decided, in spite of over forty minutes of videotape shown at the trial which Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, linked the defendants to the alleged beatings...
...Finally, the desire for stability of a majority government of ninety-nine seats...
...04106 (207) 799- cial system, but not without it...
...Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Those tapes will not soon fade from most people's memories...
...This time out, the avowedly separatist Bloc Quebecois, led by Unlike the Tories, the Liberals are a party that retains belief former Mulroney cabinet minister Lucien Bouchard, took fifty- in governance...
...For starters, the ersatz character of time but acted courageously to protect the dignity and the rights the Tory campaign convinced nobody...
...Or does being abused six...
...greater modesty and restraint...
...Both of the accused, Damian M. Williams and Henry Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt K. Watson, were convicted, albeit on lesser counts...
...and compensation...
...Those questions Hilary Hochman 30 have to do with whether justice can be achieved in such a charged atmosphere...
...Significant quesTimothy A. Byrnes 29 tions not only linger following the long, dramatic trial, but other disDead Man Walking: turbing questions have risen from its spent embers...
...CONTENTS wwpa V9 A9 i Volume CXX, Number 20 COMMONWEAL Correspondence: 2 wow- == Editorials: 3 The Tories say goodby: Jordan Bishop 4 Make Gotham governable: Wallace Katz 5 Clinton's foreign policy: J. Bryan Hehir 7 Virtue by the numbers: Sidney Callahan 8 Love your enemy: John Garvey 10 The end of Zionism: Norman F. Cantor 1 1 Poetry: David Applebaum 12 `Ex corde ecclesiae' and its ordinances: A discussion: Charles E. Curran, Joseph A. Komonchak, Anita M. Pampusch, John F. Hunt, and Paul C. Saunders 14 Verdicts & videos Screen: Richard Alleva 27 The verdicts in Los Angeles last month in the case of truck-driver Reginald BOOKS O. Denny and seven other beating victims during the 1992 riots brought Poland's Jump to the Market Economy: reassurance to neither Los Angeles nor the nation...
...While greatest" (New York Times, October 24...
...As Susan Estrich pointed out following us in the House of Commons...
...STAFF and whether intent and extenuating circumstances can so distance a person from the Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels objective nature of his or her act that-as with the proverbial infinite number of Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Paul Baumann points on a line-it may be impossible for a jury actually to connect the two...
...gle standard in applying the law...
...party, while the mildly left New Democratic party (NDP) lost While the Liberals have a solid majority, 177 of 295 seats, all ten of its seats and the Tories lost forty-two...
...In three years without raising taxes...
...New York, N.Y...
...But some laws demand adherence in all cir- The defeat of the Tories and the NDP was so total that neicumstances precisely because they forbid acts which put civili- ther got the twelve seats needed to qualify for official party statty and civilization at risk...
...Portland, Me...
...In the Atlantic province of New even as Campbell stated that nothing could be done to lower Brunswick, only Elsie Wayne, the popular former mayor of Saint unemployment before the end of the century...
...The Tories lost eleven seats in British Columbia, includas a child permit one to murder one's abusive parent...
...In the heat of anger and revulBusiness Manager: Richard Haas sion that followed the riot-a cataclysm that claimed over fifty lives and caused Design: Emil Antonucci damage in excess of $1 billion-the L.A...
...Williams's lawyer, Edi M.O...
...Perhaps...
...He promised jobs, as Mulroney had in 1984, 25 general election...
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...The Liberals hardly needed to campaign...
...The an- ing Kim Campbell's, and the NDP retained only two of its preswer is and must remain no...
...Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-33301 A Review of Prosecutors must learn to use these materials more adeptly, employing them with Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly except Christmas/New Year's...
...Campbell was haunted by a statement she cently, reasonably, sincerely, civilly, and tolerantly...
...and monthly July and August, by Commonweal Did the Denny trial diminish racial tension...
...The Telephone: (212) 732-0800...
...Staff: Harriette Balsky, Carmen Alava, Pamela Quatse Yet it was the videotapes in both cases that captured the horror of the scenes...
...For the rest of it, John, was elected as a Tory...
...Social Credit party: "Charisma without substance is dangerous...
...Here, the reality of their economic utopia...
...And yet if citizens believe there is a bias in the judicial system, as blacks in Los Angeles Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome but must be certainly do, law enforcement will have to develop and demonstrate a scrupulous sinaccompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...They are not dogmatically opposed to governfour seats, giving the Bloc the status of the official opposition...
...Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell Was justice served...
...Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr., Faal, convinced the jury: "You can't prove a case by relying on a videotape...
...treated in its pages...
...ment intervention in the economy...
...In this it will find no greater support than from the Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects black community, that segment of the population most victimized by crime...
...Does giving way to mob spirit, for example, free one from culpability Commonweal 19 November 1993: 3 for directing a brick at someone's head...
...And in Quebec, where former Prime the Liberals relied mainly on the popular perception of what Minister Brian Mulroney's party had won sixty seats in 1988, they represent and the widespread desire of an overwhelming the Tories retained only one seat, that won by Jean Charest...
...As a result, they will not be granted the Denny verdict, "The law demands self-control, and this de- research budgets, nor will they be allowed to ask questions in mand is most important precisely when the temptations are committees without the agreement of other members...
...the NDP has been there before, this is without precedent for There were many heroes in the L.A...
...the opposition is such as to make the next Parliament a bizarre In the prairie provinces, the Liberals continued their sweep, affair...
...Display advertising correspondence should be sent to Ruth E. Taylor, work of enhancing racial harmony will have to come primarily from outside the judi11 Graffam Rd., So...
...Not only were the Tories prove ineffective in a time of trial...
...did in the case of the police officers tried for beating Rodney King...
...It had been hoped that of victims who wandered into harm's way...
...As Mr...
...And while there was never any Reform party rolled up a total of twenty-two seats and added danger of their forming a government, they came within two twenty-four more in British Columbia (compared to the Liberals' seats of forming the official opposition...
...Letters of not more than Finally, there is the important question of whether extenuating circumstances di250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published...
...here, although the jury itself was a mix of Hispanics, blacks, Asians, and whites...
...Prosecutors Sidney Callahan, Liz Leibold McCloskey, should be advised that prolonged exposure to such tapes inures juries, much as it Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr...
...Circumstances certainly should be vious seventeen seats...
...She also attempted the impossible: to turn her back on Mulroney without repudiating a single one of the policies and practices that had made THE TORIES SAY GOODBY him the most disliked prime minister in recent history...
...We believe it accomplished very little Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
...They cautiously went through the motions...
...They are a telling exPublisher: Edward S. Skillin hibition of inhumanity...
...Laws and new beginnings, could overcome the bitterness many felt without the strength of such citizens' lives and character will toward Brian Mulroney and the Tories...
...district attorney piled on too many (fifScreen: Richard Alleva teen) and perhaps unsustainable (e.g., attempted murder) charges...
...And if there is any doubt about the reality of such brutality, ask the defendants in both cases whether they would change places with the victims...
...POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Commonweal, 15 Dutch St...
...As Vaclav Havel writes blamed for the recession (not entirely a bum rap), but they have (Summer Meditations, Vintage), there is only one way to strive never been forgiven for the GST (Goods and Services Tax, a for decency, reason, responsibility, and civility, and that is de- national sales tax...
...and weapons charges in an attempt to start a race riot by fire bombing a black church...
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