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...hospitable to doers of good works. Strip mining has raped the Appalachian countryside of its fertility and robbed its people of spirit. They shuffle grimly about, gray as the coal dust that settles over their desolate towns, hostile toward all outsiders, wary even of each other. There is no Hatfield-McCoy romance to their bitter internecine feuds. Sometimes the young are lured away by gaudy tales of life in Cincinnati and Atlanta and Chicago, but they usually return home after the first paycheck to "lay out" under the moon on the gritty hillsides and guzzle from bottles of home-stilled...
...against the foreign aid bill; 26 Democrats opposed it, only eight voted for it, while 19 Republicans supported the bill and 15 helped kill it. Negative votes were cast by such normally opposing Senators as Democrats J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and James Eastland of Mississippi and Republicans Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Paul Fannin of Arizona. The fatal vote came after more than nine hours of acrimonious debate and while Senators were yearning to get away for the weekend. Thirty-two Senators were absent...
...gave us the authority to play God for other people?'" He has demanded an end to military aid to military dictatorships as in Greece, Pakistan and Vietnam; he has called for an end to our military arrangements around the world: and as the co-author of the McGovern-Hatfield Act, he tried to set a December 31, 1971 deadline on withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam...
Half the Gospel. Theological liberals, he began, may sin by overemphasizing social action and underemphasizing the need for personal conversion, but conservatives can be just as one-sided in rejecting social involvement. "Insofar as we preach only half the Gospel," said Hatfield, "we are no less heretical than those who preach only the other half." As for presidential authority, declared Hatfield, respect for the office had got so out of hand that it carried "a potential of idolatry." Social issues of the day, he said, are everyone's problem, and Christians must not only accept their "collective guilt...
...Hatfield made it clear that the war in Southeast Asia was for him "morally indefensible." On racism he was equally candid: "Why has the church failed so miserably?" he asked. "Why is it that one of the bastions of racial hate in this country is located firmly in the so-called Bible Belt? Why is it that the overwhelming majority of evangelical churches are still segregated both in spirit and in fact?" Defending governmental intervention to aid the poor, Hatfield asserted, "the evangelical conscience takes its authority not from John Locke's concept of property or William Buckley...