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Some response is needed to the letter from [The Rev.] Michael Hardwick [May 17], who expressed shame that United Methodist bishops either do not see the moral dilemma of the American Christian over nuclear weapons or are so cowardly they refuse to speak out. Last November the Council of Bishops offered a strong statement favoring multilateral disarmament and only last month sent a pastoral letter to all 39,000 United Methodist congregations supporting the proposed Senate resolution on the nuclear freeze...
...ground that the first use of force in the Falklands crisis did not come from a non-American nation. A few days earlier, Haig had tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory." Summing up the U.S. dilemma, Haig asked his fellow O.A.S. delegates: "Is there a country among us that has not counted itself a friend of both [Britain and Argentina]?" Overriding a plea by Haig, the O.A.S. the next day approved, by a vote of 17 to 0, an Argentine-sponsored resolution condemning Britain's "unjustified...
Historians have sought ways around the dilemma, which would also apply even to the Lutherans, who lack bishops in historical succession in most of their churches. U.S. Catholic Bible Expert Raymond Brown contends that it is highly likely that in the early Christian period, churches with bishops recognized those without bishops on the basis of their apostolic beliefs, so that today's Pope could do the same. No such scheme is necessary with the Eastern Orthodox, whose priests and bishops Rome has always recognized as being in the apostolic succession...
...Crimson asked a number of Harvard professors their recommendations for summer reading lists for students caught in this annual dilemma. The responses were predictable and professorial, John Irving. Harold Robbins and Judith Krantz failed to make a single list, while the likes of Eudora Welty, Marcel Proust and Walker Percy made several. So will it be Princess Daisy or Remembrance of Things Past? Everyone from Bernard Bailyn to Otto Eckstein has an opinion. You decide...
...raising of Social Security payroll taxes still further, on top of the huge future increases already written into law. Though some Social Security experts believe that a relatively small additional increase could both stop the immediate cash drain and build adequate reserves to handle the 21st century demographic dilemma', the idea makes politicians shudder. As a matter of equity and politics, there is little appeal in further increasing a tax whose burden falls most heavily on low-income workers, while the well off escape Social Security taxes on a portion of their earnings and are having their income taxes...