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Show What others are saying ' Marianne Means: "Republican Party leaders are politically stupid to denounce President Carter for ending our defense treaty with Taiwan in order to open dipolmatic relations with China All this wailing merely serves to revive the traditional image of Republicans as a bunch of conservative con-servative out-of-touch sticks-in-the-mud determined to cling to the past at all costs. . . . Since the split between China and the Soviet Union, it has become imperative to "Strengthen our relationship with China. World peace could depend upon it - and that objective ob-jective far overshawdows all other considerations." M. Stanton Evans: "President Carter, in announcing our embrace of , Communist China, made no mention . 'nt- whatever of human rights. There was no suggestion that Peking had changed its totalitarian policies, or that we had demanded any concessions con-cessions on this point. Meanwhile, of course, we - are ..pressuring anti-Communist anti-Communist Chile, Nicaragua, Rhodesia and other nations for alleged violations of human rights that pale to insignificance alongside the crimes of Peking." Suzanne Gordon: "I've been considering con-sidering the extraordinary potential of this new plan (of Republicans and Democrats to sell credit cards). What a boon it would be to political corruption. If you don't have enough money to bribe your favorite politician, you could charge it. 'Bribe now, pay later,' (card companies) . could advertise, and a bank might even convince the IRS to allow interest in-terest deductions on bribes outstanding." out-standing." Kevin Phillips: "A recent analysis of 1978 referenda by Public Opinion magazine found conservatives victorious vic-torious in fully 61 percent of them, and I suspect the same would be true on the national level. Liberal bureaucracies, liberal interest groups, would be the losers. . . . The bureaucratic interest groups are especially afraid of democracy because they know that's the only way bureaucratic control can be broken." Jack Newfield: "The night the co-owner co-owner of Studio 54 (a New York City discotheque) got out of jail on $50,000 bail, the celebrities gathered to defend him under the titillating coke spoon that hangs over the dance floor. They sounded like members of the ACLU. But if the beautiful people really want to lead a civil liberties crusade, there are poenty of un-famous un-famous people in jail today because they can't afford $500 for bail." |