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Show 'Hustler', Abortion, 'Roots' What others around the nation are saying Murray Kempton: "(Idi Amin) may have passed nearly all the way to madness; mad-ness; but the last voice of reason he hears before he completes that journey will still be whispering in his ear that it is unsafe to feed an Anglo-Saxon to the crocodiles." Vermont Royster: "I am one of those people deeply moved by Alex Haley's book 'Roots' . . . and I'm pretty much disgusted with the TVmovie made from it. . .. For one thing, in making all the white people in the story consummate villains and the black people noble philosophers, it missed the real point of the evil of slavery. It was the system of slavery that was wrong and not the people who used it." Ethel Payne: "A way to lower the poverty level would be to end the useless (government) studies of it and put this money into tangible jobs that mean cash flow into pockets where it's needed most." Nicholas von Hoffman: "People who are dying in excruciating pain (are prevented by law) from having heroin, which is thought to be among the most powerful pain killers known to medicine. Why? They're afraid that somebody who has two months to live is going to become a drug addict. What difference does it make? The use of law, policemen and the courts to prevent people. . . . from taking (medicines) is an indefensible privation of liberty." Phyllis Schlafly: "Since January 22, 1973, one million babies have been killed each year because seven judges of the U. S. Supreme Court on that day said there is a constitutional right to kill unborn babies. No such constitutional right had ever been discovered before by any American judge or legal textbook. These court-approved killings will soon exceed the total number of persons killed by Adolf Hitler." Murray Kempton: "What Mr. Carter is saying. . . is that what is extortion for the Arab sheik and the Brazillian coffee grower is only understandable alertness to the opportunities of the market for the American enterpriser." M. Stanton Evans: "It is generally agreed that, if any magazine on the market is obscene, Larry Flynt's publication, Hustler, fills the bill. Witness the testimony of Arthur Kretchmer, editorial director of Playboy, who describes Flynt's magazine as 'vulgar,' 'gross,' and 'perverse.' Considering the fact that Playboy itself is not exactly the Farmer's Almanac, this must be considered con-sidered persuasive evidence." |