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March 26, 1979
March 26, 1979
The Nation.
turning-back of the clock to pre-coup1964, when a literate minority exercised democratic rights and the
great majority lived in misery.
Butlimiteddemocracymaynotbeenoughfor
Brazil, and social unrest will increaseas more people
demand social, justice, in addition t o political freedom, The United States must
not forget thelessons of
64. We should offer the kindof sympathetic support
for social changethat we once gave to reaction, In the
words of Ambassador Andrew Young, Fearof social
change is the thing we need to fear the most.
ipationremainsdoubtful.Theconference
is scheduled for April 7. and, unless he changes his death
wish, o r a desperation appeal Carroll filedon his own
is successful, on April 6 the state, in all its solemn
majesty, will make his wish come true.
RANDALLWILLIAMS
A Beginning
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Israels legitimacy for the first time, madepossible
it
for him to win what no one had thought any Israeli
Rajzdall Williams i s a freelance reporter and a staff
member of the Institute f o r Sou,thern Studies.
.Government, certainly not one headed by Menachem
Death Wish
The Nation.
ARTICJFIS.
-THE
CHURCH POLITICAL
God,,Man and
The Rev. Moon
ANNE NELSON
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Ithough the Rev. Sun Myung Moons Unification Church issmall-it claims 7,000 fullis
timemembersbuttheactualnumber
closer to 3,000-its political power is on the
rise. Unfettered by the traditional moral and legal
constraints within which most religions in Aplerica
operate, the Unification Church roams freely, trampIing theconstitutionalfencebetweenchurchand
state. The Reverend Moon adroitly manipulates religiousprivilegesandpolitical,legalandfinancial
power for worldly ends. If his religion had a Holy
Trinity, it would be God (that is to say, Moon), Mammon and Caesar.
As an ostensiblyi-eligious body, the Unification
its tax-exemptstatus while
Churchbenefitsfrom
profiting from a far-flung business enterprise that
one Congressional committee compared to a multinationalcorporation. It employs high-poweredlegal
talent-e.g., Roy Cohn, friend of the oppressed rich;
Richard Benveniste, the former Watergate prosecuAylne Nelson is a.11 i,n.ve.stigatiw ?-eportel czl?W?lf/!J
writing a book oya Puerto Rico.
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