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WHEN HARVARD PRESIDENT Nathan M. Pusey '28 called in the police to evict demonstrators occupying University Hall on April 10, 1969, then-dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok called the occasion "the saddest day of my life." The students' decisions to seize the offices of Harvard's deans...
In the political horse trading that followed the elections, the Christian Democrats were outflanked by a rightist coalition that included D'Aubuisson's ARENA and the National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.). Controlling at least 34 of the assembly's 60 seats, the alliance was in a position to...
Begin's opposition is not without alternatives. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres has proposed a compromise well short of an independent Palestinian state, but one that could conceivably win support from Arab moderates. Peres argues that Israel can recruit Egyptian support for limited autonomy under continued Israeli supervision, including new...
So it has become a battle of impossibilists. The U.S. has not courted moderates (except Arab monarchical "moderates") on any side of the Mideast conflict. As a result of this callousness, Begin's fears have become prophecies, even if they are self-fulfilling.
The bishops then moved on to reformulate their pro-life viewpoints on a number of issues, most notably the nuclear-arms buildup. Though the hierarchy is not pacifist, it declared in 1976 that the use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances is evil, and that a deterrent strategy that even...