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...battle of Brussels, in fact, was an extension of a struggle that had been going on in Paris between two schools of economic policy within the Socialist Party: the moderate, internationalist "Europeans" and the leftist, often nationalistic "Albanians," as they were nicknamed derisively by their opponents, who accuse them of wanting to cut France off from the rest of the world, like Communist-ruled, isolationist Albania. The moderates argued that France must stay in the European Monetary System (E.M.S.), which requires every member to maintain the value of its currency within a narrow range against the others, even...
...page publication, containing up-to-date reports on human rights conditions in 162 nations, the Administration, sacrifices accuracy and consistency for purposes of political expediency. The report evinces Reagan's constant attempt to legitimize those international political goals grounded in his fundamental anti-Communist--or, more broadly, anti-leftist--foreign policy stance...
Thus, the Reagan Administration's human rights policy is not really designed to further human rights, but serves to validate the basic foreign policy goal of fighting leftist power worldwide. To this end, substantial American military and economic aid is needed to support those governments which are actively combating leftist elements, no matter how repressive such regimes may be. For, as the Reagan Administration has concluded (reinforced by the example of Nicaragua), the alternative to those regimes may be much worse...
...critics do not question that honorable or holy men can hold such opinions. But, argues I.R.D. Spokesman Richard John Neuhaus, the church has a responsibility to maintain "a zone of truth which represents the full range of morally serious reflection." And the leftist thrust of the Protestant activists has not won the status of a moral truth. Says Methodist Bishops' President Crutchfield of those who want to rein in the God Box: "This is not merely a right-wing attack. These are people who believe in Christians' being involved in the life of the world. They just...
...answers a growing flood of press and lay inquiries (2,500 since the CBS show). The key researcher is Presbyterian Kerry Ptacek, a onetime member of the Students for a Democratic Society. He says now that "a crisis in my own spiritual life had led me to leftist totalitarian politics." His present work is a reaction against that earlier commitment...