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Article: The Wing, and the Prayer for Peace
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- The Washington Post
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- December 4, 1988
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Differing U.S. foreign policies for creating peace were on
display Nov. 22. In Palmdale, Calif., the B2 Stealth bomber had a
coming-out party at which generals, politicians and 2,200 Northrop
Corp. workers cheered the $500 million warplane. Across the country
in Washington, an equal number of citizens-returned Peace Corps
volunteers and their friends-gathered for a liturgy to honor the
memory of John Kennedy, the president who began the Peace Corps.
In Palmdale, the vision was peace through the power of military
violence. In St. Matthew's, a cathedral named after the writer of
the gospel in which peacemakers are blessed as children of God, the
vision was of peace through the nonviolent ...
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