Word: drafted
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...Vatican, to come to grips with nuclear war." The five bishops, led by Joseph L. Bernardin, the new Archbishop of Chicago, spent a year taking testimony from 34 specialists ranging from outraged peace protesters to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. They then sent a 66-page first draft of a nuclear policy statement to the nation's 376 bishops in mid-June, soliciting their comments. The letters and documents that came back, said one committee member, were "voluminous." The Vatican was also heard from...
...initial draft, the Bernardin panel built upon the hierarchy's briefer statement in 1976 against the arms race. The drafters unanimously agreed on: 1) a condemnation of any first use of nuclear weapons or the threat of first use; 2) a ban on deployment of such weapons against civilian populations, even in retaliation, and even against military targets if massive civilian casualties would result; 3) a call for an immediate multilateral freeze (without using that political label) in weapons production and deployment; and 4) experimental disarmament steps by the U.S. alone to see whether the Soviets would join...
Some peace activists are dismayed that the draft does not flatly rule out all use of nuclear weapons. They also object to its assertion that it is "marginally justifiable" to possess nuclear weapons in a "deterrence" policy, so long as disarmament talks are proceeding in earnest. But both points essentially reflect positions that Pope John Paul took in a statement to the United Nations last month. Remarked one source closely acquainted with the project: "It is unlikely that the U.S. bishops will be inclined to go further than the Holy Father." What other revisions the bishops as a whole...
...more practical level, the Congressional initiative effectively discriminates against poor students. Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Cal,) and others have argued that the amendment would allow wealthy undergraduates who could attend college without federal assistance to continue to ingore draft registration, while poor students would either have to start signing up or lose their financial aid. Though characteristically cautious, Harvard's General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said last week. "It is a mistake to link distinct needs with social responsibility...
Jimmy Carter reinstituted a peacetime registration in 1980 in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Most military man-power experts would agree that the United States is not better prepared to fight any kind of war as a result. A draft would still take months to mount while the standing army would do any initial fighting. Soviet tanks, by the way, are still parked on the streets of downtown Kabul...