Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Worst Light. The White House took the unusual step of replying to the charges. The vehicle was a telegram from Presidential Consultant Leonard Garment, Nixon's chief liaison with civil rights groups. Garment termed Spottswood's attack "unfair and disheartening," and said that it "misrepresents" the Administration's record. "It is one thing to criticize, to give voice to deeply felt concerns," the telegram said. "But it is an entirely different thing to search out ways to portray the actions of this Administration in the worst possible light, to rally every fear and reinforce every anxiety. This...
Well Prepared. Last summer's riots broke out as a result of a Catholic civil rights struggle. The latest explosions seemed to augur a resumption of the religious war that raged in Ireland a half-century ago at the time the Irish Free State was created. Irregulars on both sides-the proscribed Irish Republican Army and the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Forces-have been running guns into Northern Ireland. When the current round of riots began two weekends ago, ostensibly over the jailing of Catholic Leader Bernadette Devlin for six months on charges of rioting and inciting to riot, both...
...marriage is not easily achieved in practice and that Catholics involved in successful second marriages should not be denied the sacraments of the church, as canon law now requires. One American canonist in Rome notes that the law does not work anyway, since it frequently proves no deterrent to civil divorce. "The old penalties-excommunication, suspension, interdicts-have less and less meaning or effect today," he says...
Open Concubinage. Where secular divorce is permitted, the easiest solution for many disgruntled Catholics is simply civil divorce. But in Italy, Spain and ten other Catholic countries, church influence on the state has made annulment the only way out of a marriage, and hardship stories are commonplace. For some, despite the fact that the church will often waive actual trial costs, the process remains too expensive because they must still pay for such important incidentals as medical examinations. One hapless Italian has been legally married to a hermaphrodite since 1936 because he cannot pay the fees -roughly...
...college on the G.I. Bill. He dropped out just as easily to join the police force after aiding three patrolmen who had been attacked by a street mob. Being a policeman is simply a job. Stanley performs it with the same detached competence he displayed shooting Vietnamese. But the civil service turns out not to be the secure coop it once was. Racism and radical politics have besieged its encrusted prerogatives and cherished prejudices. Many policemen respond to the situation by joining Alamo, an unofficial organization dedicated to superpatriotism and the myth of the white man's burden. Alamos...