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Show What Others Are Saying a full examination of the effects of Agent Orange would be a national disgrace." M. Stanton Evans: "In four uneasy stages, therefore, the federal planners plan-ners have brought us to the recent impasse: inflation leading to price contgrols; price controls leading to shortage; shortage leading to allocations, and allocation leading to enormous gas lines." Jack Newfield: "Rent control protects the taxpaying middle class -the people we must keep in our cities, if cities are to remain viable fiscal enterprises.... The only way I would change the system would be to introduce in-troduce a means test for landlords. Tenants should be able to audit a landlord's financial records for all the properties he.owns." Jack Newfield: "The question many people ask is: Are critics of foreign dictators responsible for their successors? I don't think we are, although this is a complicated issue. Foreign policy is a little like baseball. All we journalists can really do is root for or against a particular government. govern-ment. Our words have no impact inside other countries. We do not have the power of government to intervene, or to impose diplomatic sanctions, or to disrupt international loans and credit. We essentially cheer - for or. against." Marianne Means: "So far, Congress, has not demonstrated much enthusiasm for helping out the small investor. But, in the name of fairnes and common sense, it must adopt the President's plan. Those of us who grew up believing in the vir-tures vir-tures of thrift now find that it was all a cruel hoax. If Congress does not act swiftly, we might as well go back to the sock under the mattress or the coffee can in the back yard." Suzanne Gordon: "For some time now, we've known that athletes abuse drugs. Many athletes and team owners are so concerned with winning and profit that they'll do anything to score. So we may be killing our athletes as we kill the joy in competitive com-petitive sports." Kevin Phillips: "The real problem in Washington today is that most of our top officials have demonstrated that they can't lick anything more challenging than a postage stamp; so we find ourselves in the unhappy position of cheering petty stuff like Senator (William) Proxmire's tantrum tan-trum over limousines." Wallace Terry: "The Air Force has ordered a study of 1200 men who handled Agent Orange in Vietnam. But that is not enough. The government govern-ment must study those veterans who were on the ground, and it should cooperate with any research . conducted con-ducted in Vietnam. Anything less than |