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Show What Others Are Saying! Jack Newfield: "Human rights may be little more than a slogan in Washington. Bui. it could become the most powerful idea in the world, if we really meant it. America was created by a popular revolution against an injustly ruler. We should understand our own history enough to apply it to the modern world." , Marianne Means: "The President . has the right to rely on anyone he chooses, and he chooses Rosalynn. I am proud to have a first lady in the White House who has an influential voice in shaping national affairs.By her example, she is demonstrating to millions of American women that their sex need not confine them to a frivolous place in society." Kevin Phillips: "I don't doubt for a minute that the oil companies are greedy and out for a buck. After all, why should they be any less money-hungry money-hungry than drugstore owners, Hollywood agents, labor union leaders, or anyone else? But one big reason, I'm sorry to say, why the oil companies are gettting such unusually bad press, is simply that few journalists know enough about the oil business to either ask the right questions or get the right answers. AS a result of this mix of suspicion and technical ignorance, they grab their microphones or typewriters and howl like coyotes." M. Stanton Evans: "With Nicaragua coming effectively under Marxist control, pressure is building on anti-Communist states immediately im-mediately t to the north-El Salvador and Guatemala. Should the Marxists win in those countries, they would be on the doorstep of Mexico and its important oil fields." Suzanne Gordon: "The recycling of . America is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for our cities. But it's no panacea. For one thing, the rush to restore has become a middle-class hobby that tends to hurt long-time residents of underdeveloped neighborhoods. neigh-borhoods. As real estate values, rents and taxes go up, these people are being forced out of their old homes." Wallace Terry: "Some observers believe that, by 1983, Florida will be executing someone every other week. Robert Graham, the lieutenant governor, believes those executions will reduce brutality in our society. If that is so, why not stage them in the Orange Bowl and televise them nationally?" |