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DURING THE LAST WEEK of March, an angry swarm of protesters descended on Capitol Hill, determined to make their government listen to them. The demonstrators weren't scruffy college students upset about El Salvador. They were from the American-as-polyester National Association of Realtors, and their convention had given Ronald Reagan a standing ovation just a day earlier. But with interest rates stuck well above 16 percent, realtors just can't sell any homes, even at prices that in some places have fallen 25 percent from last year. So the realtors had come to town to demand that Congress...
...next generation of radicals must not made the same mistake, must not blindly support Sandinistas or El Salvador an rebels, or anybody ebe. Instead, we must continue the thinking began by SDS and others what we must do is develop the understanding that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union not the People's Republic of wherever represents a stars factory model for the world...
Whatever fears the bishops once had about meddling in foreign affairs, they did not hesitate when controversy arose about Central America, with its close missionary ties to the U.S. church. In El Salvador, says Editor Thomas Fox of the National Catholic Reporter, "Catholics know what's going on better than anybody else." The 1980 murders of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and four U.S. missionaries stirred wide revulsion in church ranks. Though their brother bishops in El Salvador take a different view, the U.S. prelates decided to oppose U.S. military aid, in part because of information about right-wing atrocities...
Such positions do have impact. There is widespread agreement in Washington that the White House has tempered its El Salvador position, and perhaps its nuclear stance, at least partly because of the Catholic opposition. But the prelates also find themselves fighting some of their best-known laity, especially Secretary of State Alexander Haig and, on abortion, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino and Senator Edward Kennedy...
...such activism indeed desired by the Pope? One clue may be in the fact that after conferring with Archbishop Roach, Pope John Paul protested outside military intervention in El Salvador. But John Paul pointedly castigated terrorism by both the right and the left. (The U.S. bishops have not emphasized their criticisms of the left.) One Vatican prelate contends that the Pope is mildly irritated with the U.S. bishops' stance on Central America but not enough to do anything about it. On the questions of nuclear arms, human rights, abortion and poverty, the Pope's stated positions and personal...