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As an American Catholic, I am proud and happy that the visit of Pope John Paul II was a success. I am troubled, though. It is relatively easy to condemn materialism, totalitarianism, torture and repression. Political leaders, however, must follow up their words with specific programs. Will John Paul II...
Letter Writer William N. Thompson [Oct. 15] says, quite insultingly, that "a healthy [worker] voluntarily living on a pension financed for the most part by today's productive workers is living on welfare ... If a person freely chooses leisure, he should not expect the productive working force to pay...
''This is no time for political macho.'' The historian pointed out that this new form of campaigning also would lift the election process ''out of the ruck of sidewalk hawking and handshaking to a decent level of rational debate.'' Replied Kennedy: '...
"I am a friend of Israel. To say that I have equated the price of oil to the liberty of Israel is rank distortion." The U.S., he said, is forever committed "by moral imperative" to protect Israel. But he refused to retract his plea for a new realism, adding: "I...
Dr. M.: I am not a Marxist, and I know that you Americans shudder when you hear redistribution of wealth. But it's happened here in South Africa before. When the "Nats" took power in 1948 from Smuts' United Party they (the Afrikaaners) began a concerted effort to redistribute the...