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...State Department is "obviously pleased" that the accused finally are being brought to trial. Not so pleased are the families of the murdered Americans, who contend that El Salvador is covering up the involvement of superior officers in the killings. Lawyers for the relatives informed the State Department last week that they would not participate in the trial. But U.S. officials insist that there simply is no evidence that high-ranking Guardsmen were involved. Says a U.S. diplomat in El Salvador: "The sad thing is that these families are being used by people not interested in justice but in political...
Doubting that any nuclear war can be limited, the bishops oppose the first use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. To deter the Soviets from using their superior conventional forces in an invasion of Western Europe, the U.S. has kept open the option of using nuclear weapons before the Soviets do. The bishops also criticize the deployment of new MX missiles on the ground that they would quicken the arms race. The Administration insists that the U.S. needs the MX to counter new Soviet weaponry. Surveying the broad sweep of the bishops' document, Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy...
...these accomplish is to group people with disabilities together in a composite image called "the disabled," assigning them a secondary role outside society. Behind their praise for "courage" and "achievements" is the message that when we do break into mainstream society we are only there because of some superior personal qualities, not because that is our rightful place as human beings. Attitudinal barriers often stem from discomfort and fear, and create a barrier for which there is no ready solution. Underneath them is a wish to avoid contact with people with disabilities, perhaps out of fear of confronting...
When World War II began, Brezhnev was placed in charge of converting factories in the Ukraine from civilian to military production. His superior was Nikita Khrushchev, then party boss of the area. Brezhnev became part of a fast-rising cadre of officials who came to be known in the West as the "Ukrainian Mafia." Later in the war he served as a political officer in charge of propaganda and morale with various Red Army forces. Official Soviet biographies credit him with numerous feats of wartime heroism, even though he apparently played a largely noncombatant role...
...more than a half-century, Soviet officials have claimed that their economic system is superior to Western capitalism and, as Nikita Khrushchev once said, would some day "bury" it. Such boasts sound particularly hollow today. Perhaps the greatest challenge that the new Soviet leadership faces is finding a way to haul the Communist economies out of their stagnation...