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Show Koreagate, CIA, gun control What others around the nation are saying Murray Kempton: "The House (of Representatives) took less than six months to bring a President to the point of impeachment; it has spent 20 months on its own Korean scandal and has still not troubled a sitting congressman with much more than mild embarrassment." M. Stanton Evans: "In particular spots such as Rhodesia and Southwest Africa, American policy is actually weighted in favor of Soviet-backed guerillas and against anti-Communist groups seeking internal settlement. Small wonder that the friends of the United States view our performance in Africa with amazement and depression." Ellen Goodman: "Washington in 1978 reminds me of New York in 1968. It's the pricey place where people come to hustle. But the people who come to Washington want to make it and leave it. They want to turn over everything at a profit - whether it's their job or their houses." James J. Kilpatrick: "I have real problems with the (Senate's Lobbying Reform Act of 1978). Constitutional problems. The Constitution says in words too clear to be misunderstood that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of people to petition the government govern-ment for the redress of grievances. This bill looks like a gross abridgement to me.. .Let (it) die an unlamented death." Marianne Means: "In the past few years, the CIA has become the favorite whipping boy of outraged idealists and ambitious politicians, accused of everything from monumental stupidity to complicity in the assassination of President Kennedy. But the endless torrent of investigations and critical books and stories no longer serves a good purpose. pur-pose. The time has come to ease berating the CIA for its past misdeeds and allow it to go quietly about its business.. ..Despite all its mistakes, we still need the CIA." Wallace Terry: "Some children never seem to learn that guns kill, and when they grow up they do little to protect the next generation from this maniacal butchery. So more curious and mischievous children must die until we learn that handguns, loaded or unloaded, do not belong in our homes." |