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Show Newspapers, Young, myths What Others Around the nation are saying M. Stanton Evans: "I can't help contrasting the reaction to the ruling concerning searches of newspaper offices with the response to an earlier ruling on searches of business establishments generally. In this decree, the high court said the Occupational Oc-cupational Safety and Health Administration Ad-ministration had to have a warrant before it could search the premises of an Idaho business firm. This ruling in behalf of business civil liberties was downplayed and disparaged by many in the liberal media now crying havoc about the search of newspaper offices." of-fices." Murray Kempton: "Andrew Young is our last Jeffersonian. Jefferson's faith in human perfectibility had its.. intellectual faults, but we have been a better country whenever we have let ourselves give it credence. People who quake at the danger of optimism like Jefferson's and Andrew Young's are the sort of people who are already afraid of too many things to deserve respect for common sense as it is." Ellen Goodman: "Over the centuries cen-turies we've enshrouded the court with myths and majesties to more easily accept its decisions. But now a bit of de-mythologizing and increased public attention is in order. We don't need the sort of awe bred of secrecy, but the public respect and criticism that come with understanding." Kevin Phillips: "It is absolutely intolerable that the United States is allied, even unofficially, with murdering mur-dering pro-Communist guerrillas against the forces of multi-racial democracy. I don't know whether the West can still win in Rhodesia ; it may already be too late. But let us. at least, remove the counterproductive trade embargo, proclaim our support for the multi-racial internal settlement, set-tlement, and end our gruesome association with pro-Communist guerillas whose daily atrocities make a macabre joke of President Carter's human rights rhetoric." Wallace Terry: "A hundred years ago the American Indian was, in the words of Tecumseh of the Shawnees, vanishing 'before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun'. ...A casual student of this inglorious exercise would wonder today just what more could we rob from the Indian. Apparently Ap-parently there is plenty left which interests energy developers, ranchers and commercial fishermen." Marianne Means: "The way the political system now operates, it is easier to perpetuate programs once created than it is to trim or kill them, since they tend to build up powerful constituencies dedicated to defending them." |