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Saying 'No' to the Nuclear Cross publication. George Regas and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / \ Church Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Copyright humanity ishanging t, on a nuclear cross. The world itself has become a cross of iron. -Jonah House Liturgy JjJSTTJSJid First Theologizing rejection and hate. From a practical point of view, your action is worthless Thanks for the March issue. I am one of because human minds are not overcome LETTERS the ordained Roman Catholic women — by repayment-in-kind. From a Christian ordained not irregularly, invalidly, perspective your resort to hatred and illicitly — but by the women I serve and rejection is no more righteous than T.THTTTH1 P ft who mutually serve each other. I love it! theirs. You are bound by law and Gospel IS Your articles are the first theologizing on no matter what others may do. our reality. Thank you! Furthermore, the sacraments are not Rosalie Muschal-Reinhardt the property of those administering WITNESS Copping Out Fairport, N.Y. them, but the activities and presence of God through the only media he chooses Gentlemen: I hope I did not Insult Used Issue for Meditation to use: imperfect human beings. If you anyone on your staff with that time- reject the holy sacraments you reject not publication. honored salutation. With the heavy run New Jersey Women's Ordination priests but Christ! of articles recently in your magazine on Conference warmly thanks you for the and Your protest could be much more the various aspects of "women's rights," March, 1982 issue of THE WITNESS effective were you to work within the whatever those might be, I am just a little concerning the movement within our reuse community rather than outside and gun-shy about using that term in this church for justice for women, for for against it. State publicly that you accept case. renewed priestly ministry and for the ministration of the sacraments, in As I read your magazine and sense the ordination of women. love and Christian charity and with full required gyrations in quality and thrust, I cannot During the prayer at our March confidence in the understanding grace help but wonder how that can be. And meeting many excerpts from this issue of God as explained in Article XXVI (in why is it that my Episcopal friends, were read and reflected upon. Again, the Book of Common Prayer): "Of the especially some clergy, dislike your thank you! unworthiness of the ministers, which Permission magazine to such an extent? As a Jeannine Toscano hinders not the effect of the Roman Catholic, working on a covenant WOC Steering Committee sacraments." Work positively within the team with a local Episcopal church, I Verona, N.J. DFMS. fellowship, not negatively by withdraw- / now frequently attend services in this ing from it or sinfully by adopting the church and have learned the truth of the (Editor's Note: Dom Christopher Jones, attitude of those you oppose. saying that the Episcopal Church is Church prior of Transfiguration Retreat Thomas C. Weller, Jr. indeed more Catholic than the Roman. I Monastery in Pulaski, Wise, issued a Mechanicsburg, Pa. fail to see that, however, in your statement of conscience recently which magazine. You have several things in

Episcopal said that his chapter would refuse the common with Connecticut politicians — A Word of Warning the sacramental ministrations "of any neither you nor they are talking about of deacon, priest or bishop who rejects and The more I get pontifical letters from the bread and butter issues. Why is it denies the validity of our sisters who are "Spikes" the more I am afraid for our that a group like Clergy and Laity Con- ordained in the priesthood." The letter church. It becomes obvious that Spikes cerned can address those issues and Archives which follows from Thomas Weller must see to it that the Episcopal Church your staff cannot? Should not your responds to that statement. In February invalidates women priests — and they magazine be offering a vision for the 2020. the Bishop of Fond du Lac wrote to do try their damndest. What I wonder is, church's life that holds promise of new Jones withdrawing permission for any do women realize that these people are social possibilities in a time of great fear, priest of the diocese to minister to the out for their throats? It would be dis- insecurity, and danger? A vision deeply

Copyright community except In extremis. See astrous if women think that because our rooted in worship and practice of per- "What to do With Hungry Sheep" in the church ordains them they are safe. sonal disciplines? Is not the Gospel to April WITNESS. Dom Christopher has Believe me, sisters, the legalists among be good news to the poor? Are not the since received a number of supportive us are after your entrails. children of God to live in the world as letters, but angry ones as well, and sent More and more I realize the prophetic peace-makers? the response below to THE WITNESS.) reality of our stand. Indeed, the twisting I would suggest that your heavy of realities Spikes are prone to makes emphasis on women's position in the On Dom Jones' Sins them more, not less, dangerous. I fear church is a cop-out from the real issues we are innocent. We do not know their that face us today as human beings and Dom Christopher Jones, your sins are venom. as Christians. your confident self-righteousness and We set our directions. We wait for God Charles Riemitis your display of rejection and hatred Manchester, Conn. against those whom you find guilty of Continued on page 18 THE WITNESS THE

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Church ACalifornia revealed that 85% of the you invest so much energy, money and what happened at Hiroshima on Aug. 6, people questioned believed there would resources in so hopeless a cause? The 1945. Jonathan Schell's brilliantly- be a nuclear war and that they would President and the Pentagon are in researched essays in The New Yorker in charge. You can't change that." Episcopal not personally survive it. The anger, the February indicate this bomb was a very

the small one by today's standards — a rage at this movement of our nation It did seem rather foolish to think a of mere tactical nuclear weapon. Yet it toward nuclear oblivion was suppressed few synagogues and churches banding transformed a city of 340,000 people in overwhelming feelings of helpless- together could do much against the ness, powerlessness and resignation. into hell in a space of a few seconds.

Archives establishment of military power to It is becoming clear to more people People were enveloped by fatalism. reverse the escalating arms race. But Three years ago Rabbi Leonard that the fate of Hiroshima 36 years ago 2020. today we see signs in Europe and in the pales in comparison to a nuclear Beerman, Harold Willens (a business- United States that hope is returning, holocaust today. More than 1 million man long active in peacemaking) and I public opinion is stirring, and ordinary planned a two-day conference for the bombs of the destructive power of Copyright people are beginning to search for ways Hiroshima exist at the present level of religious community in Los Angeles on to respond to the growing nuclear peril. world nuclear armament. If this arsenal reversing the arms race with the theme, Hope has risen to topple fatalism. The were activated the results would be "End the Race or End the Race." Many Spirit is at work, and change is magnified more than a millionfold. It welcomed the efforts to raise up a underway. strong, informed, articulate, united would mean the end of life — a dead religious constituency to stop the What Is This Change? planet Earth. momentum of the arms race. But People are beginning to grasp the Jonathan Schell says one 20-megaton reality of our peril. There is increasing bomb — the kind most likely to be used Dr. George F. Regas, Rector of All Saints comprehension that the danger of against our major cities — would totally Church, Pasadena, Cal., is a longtime peace cataclysmic nuclear disaster is real and destroy and kill 20 activist. not a crusading preacher's hyperbole. million people in the area or 10% of the U.S. population. And the Soviet Union nuclear warfare is on its way to What Lies Before Us? is estimated to have 113 such bombs in becoming the most popular cause in the Across the country increasing public their nuclear arsenal. The United States world." People are realizing that it is concern is finding a focus in the move has the capacity to render the same kind irresponsible to allow the military, or toward a bilateral nuclear freeze. In of destruction on the Soviet Union. any professional elite, to exercise a California, more than 600,000 These weapons reach their targets powerful monopoly over decisions signatures have been collected to put the within 30 minutes after being launched, which could determine personal freeze initiative on the state ballot in from either side. survival for hundreds of millions, and November. Resolutions supporting the Dr. Marvin Goldberger, President of the planet itself. In the aftermath of freeze have been passed by at least one California Institute of Technology, Vietnam, the judgments of the house in the state legislatures of confirms our desperate state. To those Presidency and the Pentagon cannot be Connecticut, , Oregon, in government and the Pentagon who accepted without the strongest, most New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, speak of preparing for a limited nuclear persistent critique; our leaders have Kansas and . The proposal was publication. war, of improving our civil defense made some grave errors. We need to adopted by 159 of Vermont's 191 towns. and system so that this country would be share those burdens of decision- A bipartisan coalition of 165 senators able to recover from a nuclear attack, he making. and representatives have introduced a reuse says: "Those who use the rhetoric to President Eisenhower's words, freeze resolution in both houses of for suggest that we can survive and win a shortly before his death, summarize the Congress. The momentum has nuclear war are certifiably insane." current climate: "Indeed, I think that accelerated, even in the face of the required People sense more and more that the people want peace so much that one of present administration's negative old ways of solving problems with these days governments better get out of response. President Reagan strongly military force will not work. Christians their way and let them have it." opposes it and Secretary Haig de-

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the Much of the behavior of the Soviet international religious peace of Union is reprehensible to me. But movement. (212-673-1808) Soviet actions in the international arena June 8-11: International Peace Activists do not justify in the slightest degree our Conference, New York. Delega-

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2020. negotiations to end the nuclear arms June 11: International Religious Convoca- race and establish international order. tion, New York, Interreligious A world incinerated by nuclear a it celebration bringing spiritual leaders from around the world to

Copyright explosion, poisoned by radiation and pray with one voice for future millions of corpses, and populated by a generations, St. John the Divine morally crippled and genetically Cathedral, noon to 1:30 p.m. At deformed humanity would be a poor 1:30 processforfurtherceremony prize for any "victor." A disciple of and prayer in Central Park. Jesus would never say yes to a nuclear June 12: Mass Demonstration and Rally, Central Park. holocaust. People are sensing their own power to Second Special Session On Also: June 18, 25 and July 2, 9, New DISARMAMENT York. Vigils at U.S. and U.S.S.R. make a difference. Even conservative 1982 Missions in support of weapons Ireeze. columnist James J. Kilpatrick sees a (212-598-0971). And fast for disarma- growing involvement of people in ment on Mondays, from now to July 5. shaping their future: "The prevention of nounces the proposal as "devastating." This could transform history. The strike first and empty the enemy's silos. George Kennan has said the level of momentum of the arms race would be Soon both sides will fear that the redundancy and overkill in our nuclear stopped by the freeze and parity adversary has a first-strike capability arsenals is of such grotesque dimensions between the Americans and Russians that could destroy its nuclear deterrent. as to defy rational understanding. The maintained as we negotiate our way The peril is that in a crisis either side, United States has 9,000 strategic toward radical arms reduction — and fearful of losing the preemptive nuclear warheads (a gain of 5,000 since the survival of the planet. advantage, would order a first strike. 1970) and the Soviet Union has 7,000 (a It is also urgent that the President On March 18, 1982 Defense gain of 5,300 during the past decade). clearly articulate to the world that the Secretary Caspar Weinberger, said on We can kill every Russian 36 times and United States will not use nuclear the Today show, "Now we're in a destroy the world 12 times over. To weapons first. A no-first-strike policy situation where a Soviet first strike — further expand this arsenal, the United could bring some measure of stability and we wouldn't make the first strike States is about to launch a new and rationality into an increasingly (italics mine), but a Soviet first strike — publication. generation of nuclear weapons — the bleak situation. would take out in excess of 75% of our and MX, the Trident II, the Cruise missile We are on the edge of a new ground based missiles . . ." If — which will make arms limitation generation of weapons, the so-called Weinberger is correct and we would reuse virtually impossible. These new "counterforce" nuclear weapons. The never strike first, why doesn't President for American weapons will undoubtedly be MX, the Trident II, and the Cruise Reagan accept it as national policy and matched by the Soviet Union. And so missile are characterized by their invite the Soviet Union to join us? I required the deadly race goes on. remarkable accuracy. These new believe the Soviets would match the The bilateral freeze initiative urges weapons, along with our improved commitment. President Reagan to propose a U.S./ Minuteman III and the Soviet modern Current U.S. policy does not weapons, such as the SS-18 and SS-19, Permission Soviet agreement "to immediately halt communicate this posture to the world. the testing, production and further have greatly increased the ability to After the Soviet Union's violent development of all nuclear weapons, destroy enemy missiles in their silos. invasion of Afghanistan, William DFMS.

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Episcopal How Lion, Lamb (Almost) Live Together the of rwihere is a story George Regas trick. "Oh, there's no trick at all," retain our faith in human destiny, JL and I like to tell, and I sup- said the clergyman, "A 11 you have and still maintain a firm

Archives pose other clergy like it as well. It to do is put in afresh lamb from conviction that we can approach a concerns a minister who wanted time to time." great common tenderness.

2020. to stage an object lesson for the In the real world, lions and We must not let this hope be members of his congregation, so lambs do not live together crushed amidst the powers and he placed a lion and a lamb in a peacefully, and even the prophet, principalities. Let hope give us the

Copyright cage just outside the entrance to Isaiah, when he spoke of such a courage to say "NO" to all those his church. And they lived there possibility, was referring to a time mighty forces that would con- together — the lion and the lamb in the distant future, a messianic demn us to the continuing despair — and people came from miles time. A nd that is where the rub is, of the waste and perversion of all around to see this remarkable for us: how to face up to the truth that affirms the humane, the phenomenon. Finally, the of this real world of brutality, fear, intelligent and the tender that is governor of the state, intrigued by mutual rivalry, the need for within us. this remarkable feat, sent a security, and still retain hope, still Let it help us choose the way of delegation to inquire of the work for something different, blessing and life. minister how he pulled off the work to reverse the arms race, — Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman Union to remember that the atomic One competent analysis says the threat of the Soviet Union to our free- bomb has been used only twice and both world powers spend approximately $17 dom and security is so great that the times because an American president billion on the military every 12 days, -horrendous risk of world conflagration called for it. which is the amount believed necessary inherent in the escalating arms race is A freeze and a no-first-strike policy to provide adequate food, water, worth taking — that course of action, in are essential. Both represent important education, health and housing for my opinion, would be a gross act of dis- steps back from the edge of the abyss. everyone in the world. Without a shot obedience to the God revealed in Jesus. We must be creative protagonists for being fired, the arms race is killing The media have recently given much reordering the nation's priorities. A people! The resources to transform our coverage to the many and diverse good steward is called by God to love cities, end poverty and bring about groups actively involved in an anti- creation and use the rich resources of human well-being are there. Only the nuclear alliance. The spectrum includes this universe for life, not death. political will is absent. That must traditionally pacifist groups like the However, in the United States, the publication. change. American Friends Service Committee, richest nation in the history of as well as previously less vocal groups and civilization, 25 million people are What Is the Church's Role? like Physicians for Social Responsibili- malnourished and 10 million children reuse The General Convention which meets ty and the U.S. Roman Catholic

for have never seen a doctor. Among in New Orleans in September will be a bishops. The religious community in Democrats and Republicans alike this gathering of Episcopal leadership faced America has played a critical role in the position still carries the day in squarely and powerfully with the emerging citizens' lobby for peace. The required Washington: greater defense spending question of obedience to the central concern for the earth's future exists for arms even if we must cut human mission of the church. How will the among the rank and file, not merely a services to the bone; $ 1 '/2 trillion over Episcopal Church exercise its radical fringe.

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Church We cannot allow that condition to Episcopal Urban Caucus platform for land? We could bring so much if we did. continue. I have hope that a renewed action, will lay before the General The spiritual energy for this long commitment to social justice is Convention resolutions that deal with distance run, the power for the

Episcopal emerging. Even without understanding the issues I have attempted to raise in transformation of human character

the the complexities of the federal budget, this article: without which all technology is bitter, of people are beginning to see that the rise • A bilateral nuclear freeze; and the hope that God can still make of militarism is inseparably linked with • No first strike with nuclear possible the impossible if we are a the misery of the poor and oppressed. weapons; faithful people — that spiritual Archives The Episcopal Urban Caucus in its early • A reorientation of the expendi- foundation the church can bring

2020. life had significant difficulty seeing this tures of our federal budget away from a humbly to the emerging new world. linkage. Today there is no question military priority to the needs of the poor We are so close to midnight and the about it; this linkage permeated almost and oppressed of our land; end, but I feel profoundly that the

Copyright all deliberations at the recent EUC • The allocation of new personnel urgency pervading many sectors of the assembly. and new dollars in the national church's church today is the prodding of the It is the height of fraudulence to program that will make the ministry of Spirit. The Spirit is already at work suppose the "rearming of America" peacemaking and justice the central among the vast numbers of people along with deep budget cuts will not mission of the church. searching for peace. The quintessential bring suffering to the poor and to those If the Episcopal Church chooses to task of the church is to preserve the living on the margins of subsistence in say by its actions in New Orleans that planet and bring a just life to the human our land. The weakest of our people are we can do little about the anguishing family. If we affirm this conviction in asked to bear the burden of a needs of the poor and oppressed in our New Orleans, the church then brings its strengthened nation. To conservatives cities, that we are victims of a nuclear power to help our country change and liberals alike the injustice of that is policy devised by the experts and over directions. This may be our last great appalling. which we have no control, that the chance to avert the last great war. n How the U.S.A. Will Rise Again (After a Nuclear War) Based on "How Would the U.S. Survive a Nuclear War?"by Ed Zuckerman, Esquire, March 1982

After the missiles stop falling • The Securities & Exchange Commission in Reagan's "limited nuclear war," has been directed to develop procedures publication. Uncle Sam has plans ready to provide a "stable and orderly market for securities and to get the U.S.A. up and going, when the situation permits back on line again. under emergency conditions;" reuse for We're assured it won't be • The Public Health Service is commanded like the fictional aftermath of World War III to plan for "sanitary aspects

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/ until the last human being • The Department of Agriculture is dead. will ration food (if there is any) and process radioactive milk Church The Federal Emergency Management Agency into cheese. will not be dissuaded by estimates of Physicians for' Prevention of a Nuclear War Upon warning of a nuclear attack, Episcopal that 200 million American and Soviet citizens the President will board the

of would die in an atomic conflict his $250 million windowless sealed airliner and that "the social fabric from which he hopes to direct the nation's affairs upon which human existence depends at thousands of feet above fallout level;

Archives would be irreparably damaged;" Emergency Team staffers of Category A agencies even though officials admit will report to secret relocation sites 2020. that close to that number may die, (never mind what happens they argue that those remaining to their families); must be prepared to continue and a huge computer has been prepared Copyright The American Way of Life. to feed back data of every kind on post-attack damage So, Uncle Sam has plans — to (hopefully) surviving officials.

• Emergency Change of Address Cards The National Defense Stockpile will be distributed postage free of Strategic and Critical Materials, for use "by displaced survivors of an attack including 61 items from Aluminum to Zinc, to notify the Postal Service has 130,000 pounds of opium of their emergency mailing address;" to ease the searing final hours of blast victims if the warehouses in which it is stored they may be able to find the Constitution, survive an attack. the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights American Free Enterprise stored in a 50-ton bomb-proof vault can't survive without the banking system, especially constructed for them so well conduct our financial affairs under the National Archives Building. from the bottom of a salt mine wherein is stored To survive Reagan's "limited nuclear war" a large amount of currency. all well really need is a positive attitude — And, just in case our post-holocaust descendants of course, life will go on,

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and verse backgrounds and beliefs. It has this movement is becoming unified in its essential understanding — a recog- reuse nition that the fate of all humanity for is hanging in the balance, and that our president and his men (and women) are willfully and terrifyingly ignorant of required This Is More how thin a thread holds back a holocaust. Than a Peace Movement This movement is not alone. It has its Permission counterparts all over the world. The participants do not necessarily think of

DFMS. by Roberta Lynch grown from town meetings in New themselves as radicals. Yet in placing / England, from house parties in Cali- human survival at the forefront of their fornia, from church pulpits in Texas. agenda — and refusing to be deflected Church Some call it a peace movement. But it by political cant about mutual is more than that — for these days even deterrence and national defense and the fiercest hawks are trying to crouch Soviet superiority — they are positing Episcopal under the wings of the dove and peace the most radical of alterations in the the has become the coinage of the arms practice of world politics today. of merchants. Some say it is a movement The hard-headed "realists" have against the draft, or against foreign already begun to chide them. And the

Archives intervention, or against military politicians have already begun to try to spending. It is all of these. But it is more. co-opt them. But I suspect that this

2020. For perhaps the first time since the disarmament movement will not easily be disarmed of its conviction or its fervor. Whatever course it takes in the Copyright

12 coming years, it already offers us some matters to people but their own of mystery. Very few people on the left powerful lessons about the way things immediate economic self-interest. That predicted — even a year or two ago — — and people — change. is the stuff of politics, of organizing. If that this disarmament movement would 1. Someone has to go out on a limb you want to move people, you have to gain such momentum or attention in — and stay there. It may seem to some be pragmatic — you have to be able to such a short span of time. In fact, in the that this disarmament movement has win. wake of the Iran crisis and Reagan's emerged overnight, like a child born at There is, of course, much that is valid victory, it seemed to many that the age 10. In fact, it has been around for in this analysis. But if we are truly militarists and national chauvinists had decades. Sometimes no more than seeking to develop a politics that is near-total hegemony. voices crying in the wilderness, the about people in all their dimensions and Moreover, in all the debates that have

publication. disarmament advocates have sounded their complexity, then it is not sufficient raged over "key sectors" on the their warnings. Often they were ignored to see them only in those narrow terms. left, I think it is safe to say that virtually and or treated as kooks. But they did not go In some sense, the nuclear no one mentioned doctors or Catholic

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for message could not be dismissed. about self-interest. After all, each progressive mass movement. I am thinking particularly of those individual's survival is at stake. Such surprises are a welcome within the Catholic Church of However, I am skeptical that people are reminder of the mystery that is at the required Dorothy Day, of , of actually drawn to the movement on that core of each human being — that can the thousands of lesser-known but no- basis. Few of us like to dwell long on the never be fully analyzed or controlled or less-committed crusaders for peace — possibility of our own incineration. beaten down — and that imparts to

Permission who long were branded extremists by It seems to me, rather, that this each collective movement of the people the church hierarchy. Today that movement has placed moral questions a unique character and a sense of hierarchy not only echoes their ideas, at its very center, and that it has touched immense possibility. DFMS. / but in some cases it has even sanctioned in its supporters a deep concern about For the disarmament movement — their civil disobedience tactics. the future of our children and our whatever its long-term impact — offers

Church It took many years of diligent effort, planet. us a sign of hope in a pretty dismal time. and it took people who were able to be 3. Politics is one part analysis, two For that, as much as anything else, we visionary and willing to be "extreme," parts organizing, and one part mystery. should be grateful.

Episcopal but the result is a movement that has a Sometimes it's easy to start thinking the depth and a scope that could not have that because we've read Marx or taken Roberta Lynch is a regular columnist for In of been built out of direct mail campaigns an economics course or guessed that These Times and a political activist. The and public relations gimmicks. Reagan would beat Carter, we can be above article is reprinted from In These 2. Morality does matter. For the past completely "scientific" about politics. Times, 1509 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, III. Archives decade it has been increasingly And, of course, there are some things 60622.

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13 War Is Fun! Like Pac-Man (From the CBS News radio broadcast, Newsbreak, with Charles Osgood, Jan. 19, 1982.)

publication. CHARLES OSGOOD: Hey, kids! War games, like Missile Command and Pac and Foxbat and Fitter, Flagen, and is fun, just like Asteroids, you know, Man. I mean, if you like Asteroids and and Fender and Fiddler and Firebar. What just like Space Invaders. Screen full of Space Invaders, you'lljust love Mowags will we call the MX missile? It will not

reuse blips, fast hand on the controls, and Pave Paws and Buffs and Slufs. be known as the MX, you know, once for incoming Crusties, outgoing And just possibly, Chief Petty Officer it's in place. It will be called something Aardvarks. Lights flash, buzzers buzz. Reed has stumbled onto something, not else, like Scorpion, or Liberator II In a world of Foxbats and Floggers, only effective as all get-out, possibly, or Vigilant, some name that is required Firebars and Forgers, in a game of Fish- recruitment-wise, but full of scary, going to inspire respect from our pots, Mowags, Scuds and Tweets, in a sobering insight for the rest of us. enemies and confidence from our own contest of Kangaroos and Kitchens, I mean, maybe she's onto something. people, something sincere and earnest

Permission Frogs and Galoshes, the good guys and Just the other day in the LA Times, and trustworthy, like the Honest John the bad guys go at it. And doggone, David Wood had a piece about the Missile. there goes another civilization. There

DFMS. weapons and defense systems these David Wood says Hallmark is being / goes everything. Stand by. days, the nicknames. You know what a seriously considered for the MX. You (Announcement) Galosh is? A Galosh is the Pentagon's know, Hallmark, "When you care Church OSGOOD: A little item on the name for a supersonic nuclear-tipped enough to send the very best!" newswires this morning about a woman Soviet missile. The Soviets don't name The nice thing about these swell who is the top recruiter for the U.S. their weapons, not for our convenience euphemisms used for weapons systems Episcopal Navy, Chief Petty Officer Julie Reed of anyway. So, the Pentagon has to pin is that they enable us to talk about the the Williamsport, Pa. And what is the names on them to know what's being unthinkable without reference to what of secret of her success? How did she talked about. Our names sound sort of these things really are and what they manage to sign up 83 enlistees last year nice. Take our cargo planes. Hercules, really do. Perhaps then, this will be the Starlifter, Galaxy. We call the Soviet Archives in Rancho Cordova, Cal.? Simple, she epitaph of the human race: "Game says. She would just head on down to counterparts the Clod, the Clank, the over!" Now, this.

2020. the old video game arcade and chat with Coot and the Crate. Our C-47 is called (Announcement) the kids hanging out, tell them how the Gooney-Bird. Isn't that sweet? The OSGOOD: Newsbreak. I'm Charles Navy radar and sonar and computer A-10 is a Wart Hog. The B-52 is a Buff, Osgood, CBS News.

Copyright weapons are a whole lot like the video B-U-F-F, for Big Ugly Fat Fellow. And — Reprinted with permission the Vaught A-7 Corsair II is nicknamed Sluf, for Short Little Ugly Fellow. I told you this would be fun. Among the names given to other weapons in the arsenals of the super- powers are Mowags and Scuds and Frogs and Aphids and Tweets. There are weapons called Fishbed and Flogger J

14 (The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945 — the Christian Feast of the Transfiguration.) Transfiguration by Alia Bozarth-Campbell

(This was the first poem by a foreign woman poet to be placed on permanent display, In Japanese, In the Peace Memorial Garden. The Rev. Alia Bozarth-Campbell of Wisdom House, Minneapolis, was among the Philadelphia 11, the first women to be ordained Episcopalian priests.)

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