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Administration nuclear arms strategy was under nagging and contradictory pressure on several other fronts last week. In Chicago, the country's Roman Catholic bishops adopted a pastoral letter that is sharply at odds with many elements of Reagan policy (see RELIGION). And earlier in the week, three U.S. Senators...
The meaning of this moment is not about weapons systems, megatonnage or complicated treaties. [It] resides in the vivid awareness people have of the danger of our times and the public determination that governments be challenged to take decisive steps against the nuclear threat." So declared Joseph Cardinal Bernardin as...
The third draft of the pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response," was written by a five-member committee headed by Bernardin. The first and second drafts had given grudging acceptance to the concept of nuclear deterrence, if the U.S. worked for mutual disarmament...
Between them, Constable and J.M.W. Turner define the supreme achievements of landscape painting in Europe in the first half of the 19th century, but Constable was by temperament incapable of reaching for Turner's ever mutating rhetoric of sublime effects. His work was more staid, more modest, less conspicuously...
Nor did a rescue seem any closer for the beleaguered MX missile, a prime object of congressional skepticism and budget cutting. A blue-ribbon bipartisan presidential commission headed by Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to President Gerald Ford, is expected to recommend this week that production and deployment...