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February 25, .1982
Catholic ideas differ
on nuclear weapons
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By Scott McCullar
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VATICAN CITY — Roman
Catholic leaders, especially in
the United States, are engaged
in a dispute over whether it is
morally wrong to stockpile nuc
lear weapons as a aeterrent
force.
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ern meni ;i has called repeatedly for global
1 ve m rep, | disarmament negotiations, he
has not spelled out a clear posi
tion on whether the policy of
nuclear deterrence is immoral.
The controversy resurfaced
in December when Cardinal
Terrence Cooke of New York
drew harsh criticism for saying
nuclear weapons can be “moral
ly tolerated as long as our nation
is sincerely trying to work with
other nations to find a better
jvay.”
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ican military chaplains, said na
tions have a moral duty to find
alternatives to nuclear weapons
but argued that millions of peo
ple may be alive precisely be
cause nations know a first strike
will lead to a counterattack.
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Several weeks after the letter
was released, the pope seemed
to lend support to the cardinal’s
argument by saying nations
“have a right and even a duty to
protect their existence and free
dom by proportionate means
against an unjust aggressor.”
difference between convention
al and nuclear warfare “only
underlines the urgency of world
society to equip itself with effec
tive means of negotiations.”
The Church’s traditional
teaching on a “moral” war has
not changed in centuries. It
hinges on the stand that civilian
lives be spared from the ravages
of the battlefield.
The question, however, that
has engaged church moralists
for the past few years is: Can any
kind of nuclear weapon be cons
idered in conventional terms,
even a tactical warhead aimed at
a precise military target?
Some bishops in the United
States, where the dispute is
strongest, have argued that the
weapons are part of a nation’s
right to legitimate self-defense.
In a letter written to his dioce
san newspaper last month,
Bishop Howard O’Rourke of
Peoria, Ill., said: “The threat to
use nuclear weapons is signifi
cantly different from actually
using them. The reason for
threatening to use nuclear
weapons is deterrence, and to
prevent the use of nuclear arms
against our people.”
Bishop Raymond Tucker of
New Ulm, Minn., offered the
opposing view in a Christmas
message.
“This is not peace,” Tucker
said of nuclear deterrent forces.
“It is brokenness. It is sin. A
world where the threat of nuc
lear destruction is kept at bay by
nuclear blackmail is not a world
of peace.”
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Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fuji film
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United Press International
HOLLYWOOD — The in
ventive sound effects in the mo
tion picture “Raiders of the Lost
Ark” have won a special Oscar
that will be given next month
during the Academy Awards
presentations.
The Academy of Motion Pic
ture Arts and Sciences also dis
closed Tuesday that a special
Oscar will be given the Fuji
Photo Film Co. of Japan for de
veloping a riew high-speed color
film.
The two statuettes are among
14 scientific and technical
awards selected by the
academy’s board of governors to
be presented during a banquet
March 21, eight days before the
1982 Oscars are nationally tele
vised.
Benjamin Burtt Jr. and
Richard Anderson w ill receive a
Special Achievement Award for
the editing “of a completely in
vented soundtrack that en
hances the realism of the events
and characters” of the adven
ture movie “Raiders of the Lost
Ark,” one of five nominees for
the best-picture Oscar.
A spokesman said almost ev
ery sound in the film, except for
some dialogue and a few loot-
steps, was separately concep-
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