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After the bishops adopt the economic pastoral, probably next year, it will become a teaching document in schools and churches for 53 million U.S. Catholics. They will be free to argue with programs advocated by the statement, but not with its goal of fostering economic rights and human dignity. "In our view," the draft declares, "there can be no legitimate disagreement on the basic moral objective...
...Peres government clearly expects the Reagan Administration to help Israel out of its economic crisis. But at the same time, the Administration is determined to maintain a neutral role in the southern Lebanon negotiations unless, as State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg puts it, all parties to the dispute "adopt practical, problem-solving approaches." In that vein, this week's Lebanese-Israeli military talks, to be held at U.N. headquarters in the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura, must be considered a small step forward. At the meeting the Israelis are expected to reiterate their insistence on a post-withdrawal role...
Riesman also stressed that the nation's colleges and universities are too heterogenous a group to adopt the panel's broad recommendations...
...addition, upperclassmen have reached out to incoming Radcliffe women in an "adopt-a-freshman program," which this fall matched up 30 "little sisters" with upperclass group members...
...OTHER SPOTS, policy veers toward merely paying lip service to opposing apartheid. Shareholder resolutions and discussions with executives are not to be viewed as means to an end but ways of publicizing Harvard's opinion on the issue. Bok writes: "The University did not adopt this policy because it felt that its actions--or any actions that universities could take--would have a substantial effect on apartheid. Harvard decided on this course of action in the conviction that it should vote shares as conscientiously as possible, even if the effects are only limited." In other words, Harvard must resign itself...