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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, January 29, 1981
Reagan Appointee Details Latin America Viewpoint
BY JIM LACKEY
WASHINGTON (NC) - With President Reagan now in
the White House, one question being closely watched by
church groups is how the new administration will set
policy toward Latin America.
Although the broad outline of that policy already is
fairly well known, more specific clues to what might
actually happen are contained in an article published in
January by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s appointee as
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick, a Democrat who impressed Reagan
last year with an earlier article on foreign policy, said in
her latest essay published in the Washington Star that the
Carter administration failed to understand the dynamics
of Latin American politics and wrongly assumed that
“progressive” change promised by groups attempting to
overturn the old order would necessarily result in a better
life for Centra! American citizens.
Pointing specifically to Nicaragua and El Salvador -
two countries where church groups generally have
supported efforts aimed at social change - Mrs.
Kirkpatrick said that the choices are frequently
unattractive but that a philosophy which says that change
would be for the better must be abandoned.
She also said the involvement of guerrilla groups linked
to Cuba has upset whatever vestiges of a balance of power
there were in the region, making it even more important
that the United States act as a source of economic aid and
moral and military support for stability.
Revising U.S. policy in Latin America, she concluded,
is “one of the most urgent tasks of the Reagan
administration.”
Mrs. Kirkpatrick, a former professor of government at
Georgetown University, said that basic to an
understanding of Latin American politics is that there has
always been a lack of consensus among groups vying for
power. Since “no institution is able to establish its
authority over the whole,” she said, power always rests
with those who use the greatest force.
“Because there is no consensus on what makes
government itself legitimate, successive regimes remain
vulnerable to attacks on their legitimacy,” she said in
making her point that such turmoil will continue whether
more progressive governments come to power or not.
Turning to Nicaragua, Mrs. Kirkpatrick said the
revolution in that country perfectly illustrates what
happens when U.S. “pressure for change” brings results
that are no better for the people than the regime that was
previously in power.
She said that leaders of the new Sandinista government
have shown no disposition to share their power, that free
elections are not planned until the people are
“re-educated” by the Sandinistas, that the press is
subjected to pressures more harsh than those under the
previous Somoza regime, and that in reality one
dictatorship was replaced by another.
“Nothing that happened in Nicaragua seemed able to
dampen the Carter people’s enthusiasm for ‘change’ in
Central America,” Mrs. Kirkpatrick wrote, adding that
Carter administration policies had in less than four years
transformed the political map of the area.
“Because it failed to take account of basic
characteristics of Latin political systems,” she also said,
“the Carter administration underestimated the fragility of
order in these societies and overestimated the ease with
which authority, once undermined, can be restored.” She
said the administration also failed to understand that
when political “forces” are played against each other,
their ideas tend to get lost, causing intransigence which
prevents cooperation and compromise among political
factions.
To reconstruct U.S. policy toward Latin America, Mrs.
Kirkpatrick urged “thinking more realistically about the
politics of Latin America, about the alternatives to
existing governments, and about the amounts and kinds of
aid and time that would be required to improve the lives
and expand the liberties of the people of the area.”
She also urged abandonment of what she called a
“globalist” approach to foreign policy which she indicated
takes an abstract concept such as human rights and
ignores the “concrete circumstances” surrounding each
political situation. \
Much of what Mrs. Kirkpatrick wrote is the opposite of
the view that church groups both in the United States and
in the Latin American countries take on the need for
change and the repressive characteristics of some present
and past regimes there.
But with a new president in office whose admiration
for Mrs. Kirkpatrick’s views is well documented, future
U.S. policy is more likely to reflect her views than those
advanced by the churches.
Bernardin To Head War-Peace Study
WASHINGTON (NC) -
T hree new ad hoc
committees, including one
to study and make
recommendations on
church teachings on war
and peace, have been
established by the U.S.
bishops, it was announced
Jan. 26.
The three new
committees were
established in response to
discussions by the bishops
at their annual general
meeting in Washington last
November. In addition to
the war and peace issue,
committees also were
formed to study the
relationship of capitalism
and Christianity and to
develop a new “mission
statement” for the
National Conference of
Catholic Bishops and U.S.
Catholic Conference.
Archbishop Joseph L.
Bernardin of Cincinnati, a
former NCCB-USCC
president, has been named
chairman of the ad hoc
committee studying the
war and peace issue. The
other committees will be
chaired by Archbishop
Rembert Weakland of
Milwaukee (capitalism and
Christianity) and Auxiliary
Bishop Daniel Pilarczyk of
Cincinnati (NCCB-USCC
mission statement).
According to the
announcement, the
chairmen will name other
bishops to membership on
the three committees.
The war and peace issue
arose at the November
meeting when several
bishops said recent
PERSON OF THE YEAR,
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her in January. Mrs. McNamara of
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developments in nuclear
technology and in U.S.
defense policy demanded a
new look by the church at
the question. Some of the
bishops urged that a new
pastoral letter be
developed on the horrors
of nuclear war and on the
continued development of
nuclear armaments.
The question of the
relationship between
Christianity and capitalism
came up during discussion
of the bishops’ pastoral
letter on Marxist
SO. KOREA
communism. After some
bishops noted that Pope
John Paul II has
condemned the extremes
of both Marxism and
capitalism, the bishops’
approved a motion urging
that a statement similar to
the Marxism document be
prepared on capitalism.
The decision to develop
a new mission statement
for the bishops’ twin
conferences came during
consideration of both
short - and long-term
priorities for the bishops.
was chosen by the Georgia Bulletin
as 1980 recipient of its annual award
for her work in the parish and
archdiocese. Bulletin editor,
Monsignor Noel Burtenshaw, looks
on at right.
Govt. Commutes
Death Sentence
SEOUL, South Korea (NC) - The death sentence of
South Korean political dissident, Kim Dae Jung, has been
commuted to life imprisonment after a series of
international protests by governments and religious
leaders.
The commutation was announced Jan. 22 by President
Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea, who said the action was
taken because Kim expressed “repentence” for his
actions.
Chun also announced an end to the nationwide martial
law edict issued last May when the military government
began a major crackdown on dissidents.
Kim was sentenced to death Sept. 17, 1980, by a
military court after being convicted on charges of having
fomented sedition by instigating anti-government
demonstrations aimed at overthrowing the government.
Kim, who was arrested last May, denied the sedition
charges.
ST. ANN S DEDICATED - St.
Ann’s new church in East Cobb
County was dedicated by
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan on
Jan. 3. The new church pictured
above, and parish center will serve
this growing community of East
Marietta. Father Tom Carroll, M.S.,
is pastor. Father Carroll is assisted in
the parish by fellow LaSalette
religious, Brother Peter Collins and
Father Tom Leclerc. The new church
seats over 650 and has a small
Blessed Sacrament chapel which is
used for daily Mass. The interior is
shown below. The address for the
new church is 4905 Roswell Road,
Marietta, 30062. Call 998-1373.
Effort To Resettle Cubans —
(Continued from page 1)
Catholic Community of
Atlanta stepped in. Father
Jacob Bollmer, as
executive director of
Catholic Social Services,
heads up the resettlement
of refugees in Atlanta.
“They have to come
through us,” says Father
Bollmer, “and the big
difficulty is getting a
sponsor. We insist that the
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writing, support for the
new refugees. The Cuban
community has been slow
to come forward for these
men in the Penitentiary. It
is as if they are ashamed of
this mixed lot.”
Very often Father
Bollmer will find a sponsor
by calling a private list he
holds in his office. “We
must settle them quickly if
we are going to do it at
all,” he says. “The
government only allows
$250 to our agency for
each refugee to be
resettled. And you know
how far that goes for food,
clothes and shelter.”
Father Bollmer resettles
many nationalities in the
Atlanta area. Some are
from Vietnam, all over
Indochina, Africa and even
Afghanistan.
However, thanks to the
efforts of Tomas, Martha
and Father Bollmer, a
sponsor for Jose was
found. He was given a
room and quickly found a
job on a building site. He
was soon elevated from
mere laborer to painter. He
is happy and making good
money. His dream is
coming true.
“Now,” says Tomas,
“he is saving for an
apartment of his own.
When he is two years in
the U.S., he will be given
the status of “permanent
resident”
immigration
and he can
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But by then Castro may
have changed the rules
about letting refugees out.
Or he may have raised the
price to get them out. Jose
lives, works and hopes.
In the meantime the
work of Tomas, Martha
and Father Bollmer goes
on.
“They have 800 at the
Penitentiary now,” says
Tomas, “and only 60 have
been resettled since May.
It’s too slow and so many
more are coming. Some
are in there who have
already been given
political asylum by the
government. It is hard to
know why they are still in
jail.”
Father Bollmer feels
that more experts should
be sent to the Atlanta
Penitentiary by the
government to hasten the
process of release. But he
also understands the
caution. “These are a
different kind of Cuban
refugee,” he notes. “It will
take a long time to resettle
them. Around the
country, the Cuban
community has been slow
to come forward to accept
them. And some of them
are hard-core criminals,
but since they are here we
should try, we must try.”
Father Bollmer makes
one further point. “They
will be a challenge to us
all. The only religion they
know is Catholic but they
have very little faith. To
come to their aid, the
Church needs many willing
hands and more priests
and religious who can
speak Spanish.”
As Tomas and Martha
go back to their great
work at the Penitentiary,
as Father Bollmer goes to
his Spanish classes along
with his staff two days each
week, and as Jose begins
his new life, the challenge
of the Gospel message is
alive and awaiting
fu 1 f illment in the
communities of North ,
Georgia.
Soundings —
(Continued from page 1)
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