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CONTENTS Volume CXXI, Number 9 Correspondence: 2 Editorial: 3 The torch is passed: George Grayson 4 In Chiapas, long shadows: Alberto Huerta 5 The price of democracy: Karl...
...And if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: 'Common decency.'" ET CETERA COOL & CANDID IN REYKJAVIK Jesuit Bishop Alfred J. Jolson of the ancient diocese of Reykjavik, Iceland (founded in 1056, restored in 1988), died at age sixty-five during a visit to Pittsburgh in late March...
...It is not clear whether President Bill Clinton is unwilling or simply unable to galvanize international resistance to Serb crimes...
...Has Christopher or the Clinton administration any credibility left...
...While not happy campers, the party bosses will climb aboard Commonweal...
...After two Ivy-League-educated chief executives, they longed for someone who appreciated patronage and payola more than econometric models and floating exchange rates...
...Finally, Serb forces are said to be withdrawing beyond the twenty-kilometer security zone imposed April 24 under the threat of NATO bombing...
...Few doubt that the Serbs have manipulated the "peace process" to maximum advantage...
...At the time of his appointment he was one of three priests in the world with an Icelandic heritage...
...Without endorsing any of the options he described, he wrote that the crisis of ministry requires action: "Though a collapse eventually leads to decisions being taken, it would be better not to be faced with making them in necessity or in a state of collapse...
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...Medical care is being rushed to the city, where the Serbs targeted the hospital...
...As a result, Salinas has had his way...
...As Western leaders temporize, the Serbs prosecute what since 1945 has been thought unthinkable--a war of terror against civilians in the midst of Europe...
...Not only were his academic credentials impeccable, but he won praise as research director of Mexico' s central bank and as head of the FICORCA program that managed private-industry debt during the '80s...
...If recent history is any guide, they will be back waging war against civilians somewhere in Bosnia before you read this...
...influence and power for good in a world in which we must lead whether we like it or not...
...Having conquered two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina, they are now trying to consolidate those gains by eliminating the few pockets left of Bosnian resistance--the gruesomely mislabeled "safe havens...
...If you had asked me why I joined the militia I should have answered: 'To fight against fascism,'" Orwell wrote in Homage to Catalonia in 1938...
...Indeed, with the Serbs defying the UN when and where they see fit, what stock can the Bosnian government put in future Serb promises or future UN resolve...
...His record was more ambiguous as education secretary (1992-93...
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...Clinton has yet to speak candidly to the American people about what is at stake morally and politically in Bosnia...
...a grandfather, Gudman Hjalpason, was born there...
...More important, only a Bosnian state capable of defending itself will deter the Serbs and bring a chance for a lasting peace...
...Display advertising correspondence should be sent to Ruth E. Taylor, 11 Graffam Rd., So...
...He raised hackles by producing an expensive new grade-school history text that implicated the Mexican army in a 1968 bloodbath in Mexico City...
...Developing the political skills that the stiff, professional Zedillo exhibited in dealing with agency heads and teachers will be crucial to his success...
...Some of the wounded have been evacuated...
...If the UN cannot rise to the occasion, we should act unilaterally...
...But Ortiz Arana bowed out of the contest and urged his comrades to back the president's recommendation...
...Bishop Jolson was known to Commonweal readers as author of"A Bishop' s Concerns: Who Will Minister in A.D...
...4:6 May 1994 REPORTS ON MEXICO THE TORCH IS PASSED SALINAS TO ZEDILLO resident Carlos Salinas de Gortari has transformed not only Mexico's foreign economic policy but also its domestic political priorities...
...Under the threat of so-called "serious" NATO bombing, the Serbs have retreated from Sarajevo and now Gorazde, but not before wreaking massive destruction and terror...
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...Their favorite was party chairman Fernando Ortiz Arana, forty-nine, lauded by one jowly congressman for his "patronism, clarity, talent, and faith in the principles of the Mexican revolution...
...Failure to deter the Serbs may yet bring calamitous repercussions for the region as a whole...
...He performed brilliantly as Salinas's budget chief from 1988 to 1992...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher lamely argues that the Gorazde pull-back is evidence of progress toward a diplomatic settlement...
...Surely it is clear that the Serbs hold all the tactical advantages, being able to pick the time and the place to test the UN's resolve or call NATO's bluff...
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...As we have said in the past, the continued arms embargo against the Bosnian government is unconscionable...
...Whatever legitimate concerns there may be about the moral dangers and strategic difficulties of involving Western forces directly in this conflict, surely the Bosnians have a right to defend themselves...
...CONTENTS Volume CXXI, Number 9 Correspondence: 2 Editorial: 3 The torch is passed: George Grayson 4 In Chiapas, long shadows: Alberto Huerta 5 The price of democracy: Karl Bermann 6 Women's colleges work: Abigail McCarthy 8 Paying for abortions: David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Rather than a cosmopolitan egghead, PRI's swag-bellied bosses wanted as their standard-bearer a biceps-squeezing, savvy operative, in tune with grassroots politics...
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...What is clear is that the international community's willingness to resist aggression elsewhere is being measured in Bosnia...
...With the international community clamoring for a cease-fire under almost any conditions, the Serbs want to seize as much territory as possible and then demand peace on their terms at the negotiating table...
...Zedillo was just the man to calm squeamish investors...
...They have not hesitated to break countless cease-fire accords and to place Serbian women and children as roadblocks to UN relief convoys...
...How long this cessation of Serb aggression and genocidal attacks will last is anyone's guess...
...And it is far from over...
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...Distracted by Whitewater and understandably concerned about domestic issues, President Clinton is in danger of squandering U.S...
...has argued, the UN charter and international law demand at least that much...
...To cope with the problem, "[w]e need prayer, courage, imagination, and fortitude...
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...he taught at several U.S...
...As Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y...
...If he is at a loss for words, he might borrow some from George Orwell...
...For him, it was more important to convince financial gurus in New York, London, and Tokyo that Mexico would not veer from liberal trade policy and market-focused reforms than to butter up ward-heelers in Mexico City, Chihuahua, and Oaxaca...
...Before Salinas unveiled his choice, old-line Priistas, the socalled "dinosaurs" who inhabit the party's labor and peasant sectors, voiced dismay over Zedillo, a forty-two-year-old Yaletrained economist who had been serving as Colosio's campaign manager...
...Aggression undeterred in Bosnia is creating an uncertainty that breeds conflict...
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...This fact was evident in his selection March 30 of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Lern to replace the slain Luis Donaldo Colosio as the presidential nominee of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI...
...The Serb strategy is transparent...
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...colleges and served for twenty years as a missionary in lraq and Zimbabwe...
...This move forced the aggressive, 800,000-member teachers' union to hammer out separate accords with thirty-one different state governments in lieu of a nationwide contract...
...Bishop Jolson held a doctorate in economics from the Gregorian University in Rome, an MBA from Harvard...
...Commonweal Irj~rAV~lllJ COMMONWEAL ~IIMrAV~VD~ Common decency s we write, the bloody Bosnian Serb siege of Gorazde has been lifted...
...Worse, the international community's fecklessness may encourage imprudent action by Russian hardliners or rogue states such as North Korea...
...He also decentralized the nation's underfunded, extremely politicized educational system...
...UN troops have entered the city full of Muslim refugees, ostensibly to interpose themselves between the largely defenseless civilian population and Serbs bent on finishing the job of ethnic cleansing...
...9 i Shattering philosophy' s mirror: Gordon D. Marino 11 Poetry:Richard E. McMullen 13 Catherine McLaughlin 16 In the Paraclete I trust: Marian Burkhart 15 Screen: Richard Alleva 17 Media: Frank McConnell 18 BOOKS Facing Up, by Peter G. Peterson: Jay R. Mandle 20 The Catholic Church in Haiti, by Anne Greene: John P. Hogan 22 War and Responsibility, by John Hart Ely: James Finn 24 In Europe's Name, by Timothy Garton Ash: Timothy A. Byrnes 26 On Human Rights, Stephen Shute and Susan Hurley, editors: David Hollenbach 27 What's New Orleans?: Peggy Etlsberg 31 STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Paul Baumann Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Business Manager: Richard Haas Poetry: Rosemary Deen Design: Emil Antonucci Screen: Richard Alleva Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr., Sidney Callahan, Liz Leibold McCloskey, Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr...
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...If the Bosnian government balks at acceding to Serb military conquests, the Serbs will paint their victims as warmongers and as part of an Islamic threat...
...At this dismal juncture, those who warned that UN and NATO efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement in Bosnia were doomed to fall unless the international community gave up the pretense of neutrality and actively opposed the Serbs in some way have been proven right...
...In this sensitive position, Zedillo deftly salved the bruised egos of losers in the budget process, while sharply boosting outlays for the antipoverty Solidarity initiative and other social ventures...
...In the name of peace many in the West will be tempted to 6 May 1994:3 embrace the Serb fait accompli...
...July 17, 1992], an article that raised questions about the future of the priesthood that few others in the hierarchy acknowledge: whether women can be ordained, whether priests should be allowed to marry, whether priests who have resigned and married might return to the active ministry, whether "temporary vocations" should be considered...
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