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With the combination of a more flexible PLO stand, a somewhat more conciliatory Egyptian (and pro-Palestinian and pro-Western) position and the prospect of effective U.S. pressure on Israel, the Jewish state will eventually have to come to grips with the problem. As an immigrant from Chile who has lived in Israel for a number of years. I believe that an Israeli initiative concerning the creation of a Palestinian state could be a valuable political move, even from a purely pragmatic Israeli point of view...
...Chile, when three of those ousted bishops arrived home they were assaulted at the Santiago airport by a rock-throwing mob. The attack had been instigated by several government officials who were identified and promptly excommunicated...
...Chile the church, led by Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, has been in constant conflict with the government over political imprisonment, torture and murder since the 1973 military putsch. Secret police have expelled two of the church's top civil rights lawyers, and still hold a third, though they have filed no charges against him. Two months ago, Cardinal Silva and leaders of the Chilean hierarchy issued a strong statement expressing alarm about "the fearful and all-powerful police state" that threatens to impose itself "without opposition in our Latin America." One priest noted ruefully that the theology of liberation...
...plumber in Franco Spain and were called to unstop plugged-up toilets in a political prison, would you refuse to do that because it would shore up the system? The moral issues of collaboration are not all that clear cut. People might think that they are working for Chile even while they are working for the Junta. They might be mistaken but the dilemma is there. Of course, if you have made up your mind that it is better to bring down today so as to build a better tomorrow on its ruins, then the choices are clear...
...those who seek the comforts of constancy, a predictable world with the hallmarks of a Republican administration: an economic policy featuring massive unemployment and now even a threatened return to full-employment inflation; an undemocratic foreign policy that has helped bless the world with an intolerably repressive regime in Chile, prolonged killing in Vietnam, and belated, expedient moves against the white minority government in Rhodesia apparently only to save that of South Africa; an approach to civil rights highlighted by the administration's recent blocking of public school surveys vital to enforcement of civil rights legislation and Ford's inflammatory...