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Show What others are saying welcome outside help, which implies an admission that Mao made a few mistakes along the way." Wallace Terry: "In the absence of open housing in most neighborhoods, we will need busing; not because black children need the intellectual stimulation of white children-they don't- but because white support does tend to follow white students , and schools which are all balck get shortchanged." Kevin Phillips: "For the last 25 vears, we've changed parties in the White HOuse every eight years. As a matter of fact, no party has been thrown out of the White House in less than eight years since the Democrats back in 1896. By that yardstick, 1980 may be a happy summertime for the Democrats, not the cruel winter of defeat one might suspect now." M. Stanton Evans: "In the continuing con-tinuing dispute over business profits, somebody should point out that the people with the biggest stake in corporate profitability are American workers. This is true not only in the sense that profits are the motive force of better production, which is the source of jobs. It's also true in a more obvious sense-namely ' that American workers, to a substantial sub-stantial degree, are the owners oa American business (through investment in-vestment of their pension funds.) Their future well-being is directly tied to whether business can make a profit." Jack Newfield:"(President) Carter's proposed excess profits tax on the oil companies is unlikely to pass because of the way Carter has introduced it. Carter should have said he would decontrol oil prices only after the Senate passed the new tax on profits.. .By failing to link the two ideas, in a carrot-and-stick approach." ap-proach." Suzanne Gordon: "If American industry fears searches by the U.S. Occupational and Safety and Health Administration, it may just be because it often violates health and safety stqandards, costing some Americans their health and their lives. The Fourth Amendment was designed to protect the ordinary citizen from unreasonable searches. But OSHA's searches are far from unreasonable." Marianne Means: (recently returned from a trip to China) "To move rapidly ahead, China will have to shift the emphasis from doctrinal purity to pragmatism. The problem for China's leaders is how to retain the power of Mao's best ideas, while changing the national psyche to |