Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these people are. The Mob makes for good talk. We have made these bums folk heroes." Adds Ralph Salerno, formerly the New York City police department's leading Mafia expert: "America has come over to them. We've accepted the Godfather syndrome." In addition, dramatic changes in American moral attitudes ?the new sexual permissiveness, relaxed concern over marijuana and cocaine, and the drive to legalize gambling ?create an ever-increasing appetite for organized crime's services. On almost any given day, newspaper headlines attest graphically to the size and variety of that appetite. Last week, for example...
BIRTH CONTROL. Though the Call to Action conference asked the bishops to endorse a married couple's right to decide what forms of contraception are moral, the new statement skirts the question of freedom of conscience and supports Pope Paul's statements against all artificial methods...
...although the U.S. has finally made diplomatic overtures to Vietnam, the government has consistently refused to acknowledge its moral obligation to give the reparation aid Vietnam needs so badly for the reconstruction of a society destroyed by more than 15 years of struggle against one of the most industrially advanced nations of the world...
...opposition to aid for Vietnam, apparently ignoring the fact that former President Richard M. Nixon secretly promised Vietnam $3.25 billion in reconstruction aid during the 1973 Paris negotiations. Congress may justifiably consider itself under no obligation to fulfill Nixon's secret promises; but that does not eliminate America's moral obligation to aid the people of Vietnam. President Carter and Congress should renounce the position reaffirmed last week--as the U.S. renounced its opposition to Vietnam's U.N. application--and send the reconstruction aid Vietnam so badly needs, and America so clearly owes...
...reserve clause results in something resembling peonage of the baseball player...it is shockingly repugnant to moral principles that, at least since the War Between the States, have been basic in America...