NEWS &
VIEWS
Protecting Americans
It may be a strained his-
torical comparison—the post-
Pearl Harbor herding of
110,000 Americans of Jap-
anese descent into detention
camps, and...
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CORRESPOND-
ENCE
Hitchcock's Hypotheses
New York, N.Y.
To the Editors: Mr. Hitchcock's arti-
cle [May 14] proved only one thing to
me. Commonweal is virtually the only
magazine I...
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POPE PAUL'S LETTER
"Society is divided into two widely different castes: those who manipulate
for their own benefit all the sources of supply, and the needy and powerless
multitude, sick and...
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PATTERN FOR ASIA?
INSURRECTION IN CEYLON
On the night of April 5, 1971, armed bands of young
men attacked about 100 police stations in several prov-
inces of Ceylon, especially in the...
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HHHERE IS a theory, rooted in
•* Marxism, that the wealth of
the industrialized depends necessarily
upon the exploitation of the under-
developed world. There is another the-
ory (the two...
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IS THE ABM MORAL?
An argument for the affirmative
EDWARD S. BOYLAN
The recent announcement that the United States and
the Soviet Union have agreed to "concentrate this year
on working out...
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JOANNE CHILDERS
THE WELFARE LADY
I move in a land set out of time and view,
Set off from hubs of industry and aim.
By roads unsigned and streams without a name
I seek the folk I serve, the...
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THE DEMYTHOLOGIZING
OF LOUIS EVELY
JOHN L. MeKENZIE
It is almost thirty years since I began to teach the
Old Testament in a seminary. My first students, men at
or near my own age, are...
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BEGIRLED AND BEGUILED
THE SCREEN
Even poets as good as Byron and Shelley and Keats
had their off-days and not-so-good poems, so I suppose
we shouldn't feel too surprised or let-down that...
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BOOKS
Yambo Ouologuem on violence, truth and black history
LINDA KUEHL
/ interviewed Yambo Ouologuem in
his publisher's office in March, shortly
after the American publication of...
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