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far. 1888 ;Ex-liberal Novak turns conservative B~~rfBlair Kaiser Tribune SW ff Knter slicking "a liberal ticker Into a sic~ con ervative" But Garry Trudeau s omic id a i only a tw1 t on the real- ity of Michael Novak, once a li~ral philosoph r and theologian with a wid following parh ularly among American Catholi who, at ge 50, h become a po man for neo- con rvative La t ye r h 01 Comm Teaching and the ti Economy to Header of The Tribune' Page A-2 have chuckled ov r th characters m n bury ho are currently en- gaged In a •1al eKpenment .

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rom)nent author to speak at USD Dr. M~efNbvak, a fellow at the American En- terpri e Institute in Washington, D.C., will ~pea~ at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Cammo Theater at the Umve of Sa~o. Novak, a Roman Catholic laym and author

of "The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism" and other books, was a principal author of a book critical of the first draft of a proposed U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on the economy. -----~- L

counter a p stural letter o~ th. econ- omy by the nation's Cathohc bishop . The bi hops argued that the market- place alone could nut create a good society and could not be counted on to solve the problems of the_ wea~. the sick, the homeless and J?bless. ovak's comm1 ion agreed with the oal, but said in its o~n 100;page ~Lay Letter" that the bishop sug- t d means to that end mack_ed ?f gociahsm. Th answer, it ~id, hes m ood old Am rican capital! m. g So what kind of hybri~ has Novak t>ecome? ls he a compassionate prag- P/e:~e see NOVAK,r_-4_~~--

•Nova~- ( L'oatin!~f Jf:ge D-~ matist? Or just a bigot who likes Brie? • either of the above. Those who care to see for them- selves will be catchmg Novak's act all day today on the campus of the Univers1 · iego Or partici- patirfg him m a free pubhc forum at 8 tomg m USO' Camino Theater. What they will ee and hear a man of ideas who may generate ideas in them, too. Some will not agree with him. Some will. But the mmd of all are likely to expand. Th ess1ons will be a mark of what the Jesuit John Courtney Mur- ray, Novak's friend during the days of the Second Vatican Council, called "civilization." Murray's definition is also Novak's. '•intelligent men locked in argument ' Or, better, ovak say,;, ' intelligent men and women." His wife, Karen Laub-Novak, is a painter and part- time faculty member m the humani- ties and art history at Georgetown Umverit} and Mt. Vernon College. And he has two very modern daugh- ters - Jana, 12, and Tanya, 17, who attend school at National Cathedral, a private Episcopalian academy. His on, Richard, 19, named after Michael's missionary brother who was killed in Pakistan in the 1960s, is on an ROTC scho arsh1p at Syracuse University Novak him elf almost became a priest m the order that teaches at the

also endorses the Reagan Adminis- tration's insistence on spending more and more on the arms race, and on Reagan's Strategic Defense Initia- tive, better known as "Star Wars." But the document produced by his lay commission (26 men, including William Simon, J. Peter Grace, Alex- ander M. Haig, Walter J. Hickel, James Q. Wilson and five women, in- cluding Clare Boothe Luce) sees no connection between missiles for de- fense and bread for the poor. It makes no mention at all of the bil- lions spent on both sides of the globe for defense. "We talked about it a little bit," says Novak. "But we de- cided this was a political question.'' For Novak, poverty in America is also a political question, but he and his commission dealt extensively with it. They said, "While we admire governmental efforts to ass1 t the poor and believe that such assistance should continue, we believe that a more humane and personal effort is also in order. Too many Americans want to entrust the problems of the poor to the government, and then for- get about them. Many will give large amounts of money - the only thing they will not do is be seen among the poor, helping the poor, person-to-per- son, family-to-family." Novak doesn't have any ism in his vocabulary to describe that kind of activity. In suggesting it, Novak and his commission take their work out of the realm of the ideal. They are being refreshingly real. __L__

some of the church's giants, includ- ing Dom Helder Camara, archbishop of Olinda-Recife, Brazil, have sug- gested that Catholicism and Marx- ism join hands to make a better world under the banner of "demo- cratic socialism." Exactly wrong. Novak says now. He has spent the better part of the last two years trying to outline the glories, proven by the history of the U.S. experiment, of "democratic cap- italism." He implies that such an ism, adopted worldwide, would give us peace. "Capitalists don't see ene- mies," he says, "they see customers." China has already started to change. But what of the Soviet Union? How will it change? Novak says, "I have .no problem with the people of Russia. The problem is their triple elite: the KGB, the Red Army and the Communist Party. Maybe there are only 200,000 of them, maybe 2 million. But they are strong, not only in the Soviet Union, but around the world, because they have an ideology that claims to speak for humanity." Novak, who holds an endowed chair at the American Enterprise In- stitute in Washington, D.C., is waging his own war - of ideas - against the Soviets. At times, he echoes Presi- dent Reagan's verbal assaults on the Soviet Union as the evil empire: "Al- ready," says Novak, "the Soviets have killed five or six times tbe num- ber of people that Hitler did." He

Univer ity of Notre Dame. After 10 years in the Congregation of the Holy Cross, he bitted gears, got a degree from Harvard University and be- came a free-lance intellectual with teaching posts along the way at Stan- ford University, the State University of New York at Old Westbury and Syracuse University. He covered the Vietnam conflict for The National Catholic Reporter. He was a speech writer for Democratic VI e presiden- tial candidate Sargent Shriver in 1972. In 1982, weai,ng another coat, he served und r President Reagan as chief of th U •. delegation to the u~ 1 s lfuman Rights Com- ml.Sl,,on m Geneva. He got a recent appomtment to the Board of Interna- tional Broadcasters. the private cor- poration that governs Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The 41st edition of "Who's Who In America" (1980-81) reports that Novak has written nine books. Since then, he has written three more. His latest, "Freedom With Justice" (New York Harper & Row), presents th case for a middle ground betwee. individualism and collectivism. Novak has always been interested in isms. In 1963, Harper's magazine sent him to cover the Vatican Coun- cil m Rome, where his seminary background helped him understand something new in modern Catholi- cism - the spirit of ecumemsm which he celebrated in a book called

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MICHAEL NOVAK In his Washington, D.C., office

gested in "Confession of.a Catholic" that the open church had become en- tirely too open to suit him, especially in Latin America (which will soon be the home of more than half of the world's Catholics). There, he said,

''The Open Church." In that work, he reported on the council's new resolve: in the interests of human unity, the church would zero in on issues of peace and justice. In 1983, 20 years later, Novak sug-

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Coronado, CA (San Diego Co.) Coronado Journal r,J. 5,900) FEB 2

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Swanke memorial concert sched ed Sunday at USD

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/ Council selects counsultants for two projects T"2ofofadoCity Council last federal government's community a Coronadan, in its 14-month

A ~al concert honoring murder victim Anne Swanke of San Carlos will bf' performed Sunday at the Uni rsity of San Diego The concert, featuring a special piano performance by Fr. Nicolas Reveles, will benefit the music cholarship fund named for the USO honor student and musician. Sw ke, 22, was kidnapped Nov. 20 at a La Mesa intersection. Her throaJ was slashed. The scholarship fund has reached 5,668 from donations Contributions to the Anne Swanke Music Scholar- ship Fund will be accepted Sunday. !he co~cert is at 4 p.m in the university ·Camino Theater Guests are invited to a reception in the Found rs Hall foyer after the con- cert ·•Arioso from Suite Antique, .. ded- icated to Swanke, will open the program Henry Kolar will conduct

the USO Symphony Orchestra. Reveles will play Piano Concerto; No. 25 in C Major by Mozart. Other soloists and selections in elude Prof Marjorie Hart cellist i the "Elegy" by Gabriel Faure, ~d lectur~r _Robert Austin, baritone. an_d William Eichorn, tenor, in oper., ahc selections by Puccini and Donizetti. Dr. Henry Kolar, violinist, and ~est artist Earl Schuster, oboist, W)ll _play the Concerto for Oboe and V1ohn by Vivaldi, with the guest. conductor, assistant professor Paul Carmona. Robert Austm and associate pro-. fessor Ilana Mysior will perform art songs Donations to the scholarship fund may be ~ailed to the Public Rela- tions Office. Umversity of San Die-, go, San Diego, 92110 Call 260-4600 Ex. 4296, for scholarship or concert, information.

Systems's contract calls for atten- dance of its staff at nine public hearings with attendance beyond that number to be paid from the fund at a rate of $50 per hour.

survey of significant structures here. Brandes is considered "the expert in the San Diego region on this type of project," according to The contract includes prepara- tion of a professional "opinion" as to whether the sites selected might Register of Historic Places. Part of Sunland Planning be included in the National report endorsed by City

development block grant. Sunland Planning Systems, headquartered in San Diego, was the only applicant of 30 approach- ed to bid for the $17,600 job of a general plan. Funding for this pro-- is also paid with federal SourcePoint will enlist the ser- vices of Dr. Ray Brandes, of USD, gram funds. developing utilities buildings plans for the city's

week selected two San Diego con- suiting firms, to prepare plans for resources and to prepare a com- munity development plan. SourcePoint Corp. won a $32,000 bid over four other firms to conduct a survey of pre-1942 structures in Coronado to deter- mine their historical, architectural, cultural and aesthetic value to the city. Funding is provided by the surveys of the city's historic

and public Manager Ray Silver.

Counci,l votes on both issues

were unanimous.

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