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...Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, is releasing a revised Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. It is shorter than the first draft (about 40,000 words vs. more than 50,000), more tightly reasoned and more generous to opposing viewpoints. But it does not soften the tone or thrust of the bishops' main message. The new draft, like the first, calls the presence of widespread poverty in the midst of American plenty "a social and moral scandal that must not be ignored." The document notes that 14.4% of the U.S. population lives below the official poverty...
...before, including access to housing, cars and political documents. According to some reports, they may also have received promises that their sons or daughters would receive future party appointments. Moreover, even as veteran military leaders stepped down, the government announced a "Cherish the Army" campaign in an attempt to soften the blow to the armed forces...
...Publicly, Shultz always backs the President. Arms-Control Adviser Paul Nitze would seize what he considered an opening for an advantageous arms deal, but he is a veteran of the bureaucratic wars and not likely to lead any quixotic crusades. The man in the best position to soften Reagan's intransigence is National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. Yet publicly, at least, he has kept himself carefully aligned with his White House boss. Said one Administration official: "No one is ready to break ranks on this...
Unfortunately, the presence of such people cannot soften the impact of another harsh lesson one learns on an assembly line. Manual labor is not edifying, and it does not bring one closer to God or nature. It destroys the mind...
...Reagan. He will give ground, as he already has on South African sanctions and trade, but with hardly an admission that he is changing or that he is troubled. He wants to hold on to his good-guy credentials as long as he can, hoping they may yet soften the onslaught...