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Show What others are saying Wallace Terry: "(Bella) Abzug was criticized for her'confrontative posture' and for supposedly lecturing the President. Iguess ol' Jimmy ain't about to tolerate women in his Administration Ad-ministration who have a mind of their own and the audacity to use it. Jimmy is one good ol' boy who prefers a good ol' gal who knows how to keep her good ol' mouth shut." Marianne Means: "Bella Abzug is no Ion ger an asset to the campaign for equal rights. Her crude manner offends less militant women. And her stubborn insistence that the fight for equality is all tangled up with a variety of national liberal cuases makes it difficult for conservative women to participate in the movement and support ERA." Jack Newfield: "The debate is now beginning in the corridors of power and in the media. Who lost Iran? Fingers are being pointed, especially at the CIA for not anticipating the upheaval. But the answer is simple: The Shah lost Iran! He lost it by spending millions on a huge army; by tolerating corruption; by not distributing the wealth brought by oil to his people; by having a feared secret police to torture his critics." Suzanne Gordon: "It's common knowledge that almost anything passes for a book todcy. If you're a crook, you can make money by writing of your exploits; if you've changed your head, your sex, your income or your spouse, that's a sure bestseller. Publishers seem to care less about good writing and editing than about profit. So tcday our young people think a great work is the novelization of a mo-. screenplay." Kevin Phillips: "California Governor Jerry Bri n has never been one of my favorite politicians. But I find myself applauding-and even cheering- his new demand that Congress pass a constitiutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget except in times of emergency. And if Congress won't act, he says, then let's getthe states to call a constitutional convention. I couldn't agree more. The idea of a balanced budget amendment, like the idea of Proposition 13, is a tactic whose time has come, and come big." M. Stanton Evans: . "Trying to promote a cut in federal taxes, Representative Jack Kemp of New York and Senator William Roth of Delaware have made a big to-do about something called the 'wedge.' The reference is to the impact of taxation on incentive: the greater the taxes, the bigger the wedge between productive effort and return, and the bigger the damper on economic action. ac-tion. This not only hurts the economy in general, say Kemp and Roth, it also hurts the government, since it reduces the tax base on which government must rely." |