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Encouraged by the interest stirred and conscious of the criticism, the bishops' committee sought suggestions for the second draft of their work at hearings held from Wall Street to Appalachia. This week the committee, chaired by Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, is releasing a revised Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. It is shorter than the first draft (about 40,000 words vs. more than 50,000), more tightly reasoned and more generous to opposing viewpoints. But it does not soften the tone or thrust of the bishops' main message. The new draft, like the first...
...drop one of their most questionable recommendations: a call for reduction of the U.S. unemployment rate, which now stands at 7.1%, to the 3% to 4% range. Many economists argued that such a goal was unrealistic and that Government efforts to reach it would fan inflation. While the new draft deems the current jobless rate "morally unacceptable" and calls for expanded Government programs, including greater retraining efforts, the bishops no longer set an unemployment target...
Another change resulted from concern that the first draft ignored the legitimate feelings of middle-class citizens who resent having part of their earnings transferred to the poor through taxes and social spending. The revised letter contains new passages noting that "many working people and middle-class Americans live dangerously close to poverty." The bishops made it clear that they do not seek a radical redistribution of income from the middle class to the poor. Instead, they primarily advocate higher taxes on the wealthy...
...counterinsurgency battalion, an elite Nicaraguan army unit stationed on the banks of the northern Bocay River. "I enjoy what I am doing," says Filemon Avilez Alfaro, 36, the battalion's commander. "None of us is obliged to be here. We want to be here." Similarly, despite reports of widespread draft resistance in Nicaragua, the 1,200 reservists of the less glamorous southern command who were recently summoned to the front in Juigalpa, about 150 miles from the Bocay River, appear to be in good spirits. "I know why the army needs me: to defend the peace and the revolution," says...
...Chicago with his older sister, is now legally free from his parents' efforts to have him returned to his homeland. If anything, the Steinmetz High School senior has become even more adamant about remaining in his adopted country. He plans to seek citizenship and will register shortly for the draft. "I'm an American," he told the Washington Post. "I got nothing to go back for. My life is here in America. There is nothing--nothing--I miss in the Soviet Union...