Word: appalachia
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South Africa is not some extension of Appalachia where American youth can do social work. It is a country where the schoolchildren and teachers in Black schools are on strike, and where education is under direct and indirect state control. It is a situation in which you have to take sides. Let us hope that Dan Steiner and Alan Heimert when they go to South Africa later on this month do not lose Harvard or themselves in the crossfire...
...years ago, Dukakis said, "Massachusetts was called the 'New Appalachia.' Now it's a gratifying success story," the governor said, noting the state's phenomenally low 4 percent unemployment rate and the elimination of the massive state budget deficit...
...them, and even if it is used (improperly, we believe) by others to justify a further decline in social spending, the program would still put young people to invaluable use rejuvenating inner cities, cleaning and preserving federal lands, and feeding, teaching, and aiding disadvantaged citizens from Watts to Appalachia...
...have two arms and two legs. The country has a lot of needs that it can't fill because it doesn't have the money or manpower, regardless of Reagan's budget cuts. What can we do? We can build and repair highways, clean up slums, tutor kids in Appalachia, take care of old people, feed people in Africa, man ice stations in Alaska, all sorts of things. There are a lot of good but dirty tasks out there that need fresh young bodies like ours...
Encouraged by the interest stirred and conscious of the criticism, the bishops' committee sought suggestions for the second draft of their work at hearings held from Wall Street to Appalachia. This week the committee, chaired by 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...