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Bork was one of a 6-to-5 majority on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that voted last month to dismiss a libel suit against Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, whose Washington column appears in about 180 newspapers. In his 37-page concurring opinion Bork suggested that the courts ought to be stricter about the rash of libel suits. He did not mention General William Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS--in which the general's attorney vows to "dismantle" CBS News--or former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million suit against Time Inc. Bork...
...pastoral letter written by a group calling itself the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy is any indication, then Americans just might not be ready for the radical changes called for by the Bishops. Jointly headed by former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon and Michael Novak of a Washington based think-tank, the lay critics advocated further economic development as the only real basis for greater social justice. The group, composed of notable business leaders and educators like Professor of Government James Q. Wilson, lavished praise on American capitalism, calling it the most effective economic system...
Indeed, a self-appointed group known as the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy, headed by former Treasury Secretary William Simon and Social Philosopher Michael Novak, seems intent on engaging the bishops in a struggle for the soul of the U.S. church on this issue. Two weeks ago, the group, whose 31 members include former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and J. Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace & Co., put out its own letter on economics. Said the 119-page document: "Poverty is not primarily a problem for the state. It is a personal...
...critics argue that the bishops' letter fails to acknowledge the power of American capitalism to create jobs and paths out of poverty. Instead, they contend, the prelates call for Government solutions that already have been tried and found wanting. Said Novak: "In a document that's supposed to be antistatist, it's amazing how many passages are from a statist framework." Adds Simon: "What we need is a larger pie, not a redistribution of the existing one. We threw a trillion dollars at poverty, and we have more poverty now than ever before...
...take pride in being Americans. That's why we're for Reagan," said Eugene Novak, a Reagan-Bush volunteer and a student at the Wentworth Institute of Technology...