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While nearly 9 million young men have registered for the draft as required by the law that took effect on July 21, 1980, roughly 470,000 have neglected to do so. This has created a dilemma for the Justice Department. The cost of prose cuting such a multitude would prove exorbitant. But failure to take action in a systematic way leaves the Government open to the charge that it may be acting in an unconstitutional manner when selecting those it does prosecute. Last week a federal judge in California threw out the Government's case against one non-registrant...
...they should not continue to preach the message and to try to change mankind. That is their vocation. But peace has never been achieved, even for a while, by moral inspiration alone. It has always required the highly imperfect, compromise-ridden and impure actions of political leaders. The dilemma potentially posed by the bishops' strivings is that reaching for the best could undermine the good, and that striving for the ideal might undermine the practical. -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Jim Castelli/Washington, J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Bruce van Voorst/New York
...crowds at an ethnic-heritage Mass and family picnic in Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma may be to him, Bernardin feels called, first and foremost, to make peace in his own parishes...
...FEIFFER TREATS in "Vietnixon" saw the development of a dilemma that eventually hurt his cartoons, pushing him more towards politics and away from the people-and-politics intimate type of commentary that showed his distinctive touch. As Feiffer explains it, the increasing radicalism of his old crowd and of the left in general made him feel wishy-washy. But Nixon resolved the problem--he provided a simple political enemy that could unite all of the left. "He brought the revolution to its knees," Feiffer writes, "and released me into a world that I once more understood...
...Another dilemma would have arisen had there been a baby whose medical needs were equal to Jamie's. In that case, states Najarian flatly, "the liver should go to the child whose parents made the effort to get the organ." Not everyone agrees. James Childress, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, says, "The moral decision should hinge on who had been waiting the longest, or even decided by lottery." Everyone does agree on one thing. As Jane Van Hook, Minneapolis' donor coordinator, puts it, "If more people were attuned to providing organs, the ethical...