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Show China, detente, tide Whatothers around the nation are saying James J. Kilpa trick: "The Carter Administration lusts to 'normalize' relations with Peking. I cannot for the life of me understand why. What would be gained by exchanging ambassadors that cannot be achieved by the exchange of lesser diplomats? I call it folly-folly of the most contemptible kind-to truckle to the Communist masters of Peking, and to sell our friends in Taiwan down the river." Murray Kempton: "What has been forgotten, and is important to remember, is the meaning of detente. Detente does not suggest friendship; it addresses itself only to the easing of tensions. We can expect the Soviets to continue their mischief abroad and their repression at home; but, if it was nonsense to imagine them as faithful friends, it is dangerous folly to speak of them in all matters as 'implacable enemies." M. Stanton Evans: "It appears that New Jersey's Jeff Bell (Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate) is right: an anti-tax and anti-big government tide is running in American politics." Ellen Goodman: "Students make a commitment to go into medicine when they are 18 or 19 years old, with the knowledge that they won't be practicing until they are 30 or older. In a Now Society, they opt for delayed gratification. It is only the dedicated, or perhaps the narrow-minded, narrow-minded, who go through college com peting for medical school, and go through medical school competing for a good internship, in-ternship, and go through internship competing for a good residency." Wallace ferry: "Lately we have been witnessing many crimes committed by children of the middle-class, sons and daughters of the American dream. In recent months, newspapers in the nation's capital have described a 19-year-old who killed two policemen, an 18-year-old who raped and murdered five women, a 17-year-old who stabbed her mother to death, and a 16-year-old charged with killing three little girls. All of them lived in middle-class suburbs." Marianne Means: "The long-range solution to high youth unemployment is to pursue policies which make it worthwhile for private businesses to hire and train young people who would not otherwise qualify for their available jobs. In recognition of this, President Carter... has resurrected the National Alliance for Businessmen... The NAB is going to try to persuade colleagues in the business world to recruit, hire and train 475,000 poor men and women between the ages of 18 and 24 who would normally be passed over in favor of more qualified workers. It won't cost the businessmen anything, except some inconvenience in the training process. The government will pay for the training, and is getting a better bargain than if it Daid the salarv." |