The Michigari Daily-Friday, June 5, 1981-Page 5
CHURCH LEADERS BATTLE AGAINST RE-ARMING AMERICA
Clergymen invading board rooms
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The rabbi was chairman of the board, David Lewis. ' splattered human blood- on a banner With the Reagan administration cut-
persistent and the chairman of the And the answer is no." reading, "Repent the Trident." ting back funds for social programs and
board of the nation's largest defense "But we only want to talk with you," Security guards dragged off a pledging to re-arm America, many
contractor was obviously irritated. responded the rabbi. Methodist minister praying for the vic- clergymen feel the time is ripe for the
"Please meet with us," begged Rabbi "While we appreciate your interest, tims of General Dynamic's armamen- sort of activism that characterized the
Bruce Diamond, a minority we wish you'd go talk to some other ts. 1960s.
stockholder, at General Dynamic's an- company," Lewis said. "Any other That confrontation on May 7 in St. "THESE ARE going to be terrible
nual stockholders meeting. company." Louis came as more and more clergy times, and it will have to be the chur-
"WE'VE ALREADY met, and we've AS THE MEETING abruptly broke men are invading corporate boar- ches that stand up to help the poor
met. and we've met" snanned the up, two other minority shareholders drooms to deliver a message. people," said Monsignor John
Shocklee, head of the human rights of-
fice for the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Religious figures, of course, were in
the forefront of the civil rights
movement and anti-war demon-
strations of the '60s. But activism has
been overcome by apathy in recent
years.
Also, many churches found they
owned stock in the very companies
whose activities they deemed objec-
tionable.
IN 1974, THE National Council of
Churches sponsored a group in New
York City to coordinate efforts to coer-
ce big business to be more socially
responsible.
"We attempt to educate the
shareholders in these meetings and en-
courage management to be concerned
about social implications of their ac-
tions," said Valerie Heinonen, director
of the militarism program of the Inter-
faith Center on Corporate Respon-
sibility.
The center has protested a variety of
issues: corporate acceptance of apar-
theid in South Africa, denuding of the
Amazon rain forests, the marketing of
baby formulas in underdeveloped coun-
tries and militarism.
MCDONNELL Douglas Corp., the
aerospace giant which builds jet
fighters in St. Louis, for the past two
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Samuel Beckett would have found it absurd if he knew when he wrote his play that the title would one day be used as a
caption for a picture of people waiting for a bus.
Sadat blames Syria,
wins Begin
OFIRA, Israeli-Occupied Sinai (AP)
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
blamed the Lebanese conflict on Syria
yesterday, but won a summit
agreement from Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin to give U.S.
diplomacy more time to resolve the
crisis.
. Sadat's pinpointing of blame was a
forceful display of independence from
the pro-Soviet Arab camp and coin-
cided with Begin's view. However, the
Egyptian leader failed to get Begin to
agree to stop raids on Palestinian bases
in Lebanon.
"WHAT WE DO is an act of
legitimate self-defense in the highest
moral sense," Begin said, charging the
Palestinians in Lebanon with planning
"day and night to carry out murderous'
attacks against our people."
. Sadat spoke at a joint news conferen-
ce after six hours of talks with Begin
along the Tiran Straits, the Red Sea
waterway whose closure pitted Egypt,
Syria and Jordan against Israel in the
Six-Day War exactly 14 years ago.
Sadat told the joint news conference
he blamed Syrian President Hafez
Assad for starting the crisis in
Lebanon, adding: "My view is that the
Syrian forces should withdraw from
Lebanon."
SADAT ASKED Begin to give "ample
time" to U.S. special envoy Philip
H biW'Affortabidefusetherisis ver
agreement
Syria's deployment of missiles in
Lebanon. Habib is to leave Washington
today to resume his mission.
Sadat said he also asked Begin "to
end the raids on the Palestinians" in
Lebanon.
Begin said he accepted "the request
of my friend President Sadat to give
more time to Mr. Philip Habib to try to
solve the crisis in Lebanon, caused by
the Syrians, by peaceful means."
BUT BEGIN indicated Israel was not
planning to ease its attacks on
Palestinians.
Asked if the Lebanese crisis could af-
fect the Camp David peace process
between Egypt and Israel, Sadat said
that he and Begin reaffirmed at the
summit their pledge that the October
1973 Mideast War "should be the last
war."
Since Camp David "there have been
dramatic changes in the area we live in.
There is only one fact that prevails -
the Camp David treaty and the peace
process," Sadat said. He later departed
for Egypt.
Begin told reporters after his 90
minutes of political talks with Sadat,
"We made important agreements and
we reached serious solutions." Begin
said those would remain secret for the
moment.
In Moscow, the official Soviet news
media denouned hesmmit.
In the Courts
and on the Road'
wihthe Crusaders
A CONCERT FEATURING
The Play of Robin and Marion
(IN ENGLISH)
by Adam de la Halle
and songs by
Walther von der Vogelweide
Neidhardt von Reuenthal
Le Roi de Navarre
Richard Coeur de Lion
Alfonso X de Castile
Saturday,tJune 6, 8:00 pom.
The Universifyof Michigan
Museum of Art
ADMISSION FREE
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition
The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and
the Mediterranean Context