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Show i What others are-saying Murray Kempton: "The man who tries to direct the CIA and the Defense Department (as James Schlewsinger did) is like someone perched on a wild elephant and pretending by the mere appearance of calm and decision that he is the true commander of its mania course." Ellen Goodman: "I am struck by how difficult it still is for women to age gracefully. How few of them can wear the wrinkles of their accomplishments ac-complishments - even the accomplishment ac-complishment of survival -- with any pride. It is still assumed that age gives character to a man's face but ruins a woman's. If you have any doubt about that just list the number ot women over 55 who are labeled distinguished." Kevin Phillips: "To a larger extent than most Americans realize, Mr. Carter has deeply involved the fortunes for-tunes and prestige of the United States in the Middle East; and we must now hope that the desert sands don't becomequicksands, and that we are not involving ourselves in another Vietnam, petroleum-style." Marianne Means: "It is embarrassing em-barrassing and uncomfortable to watch a bunch of politicians (on the House Select Committee on Assassinations) revive all the sensational sen-sational material (on John Kennedy's death), . knowing they are no more capable of reaching a conclusion that will close;all the loopholes than was the ' 'Warren Commission. The suspicion that they are doing it for their own political gain makes a tawdry, shameful exercise." M. Stanton Evans: "Foreign investment in-vestment (in the United States) can be a good thing, not a bad one, since it provides a needed source of capital and jobs. ...The steps suggested as a means of controlling it would require interference with freedom of trade and rightsof privacy. Full disclosure (of intentions) should be the rule." Wallace Terry: "There were flaws certainly in (the late Jomo Kenyat-ta's) Kenyat-ta's) character, and failings in the republic, which he led out of colonial rule to ; political stability- and economic growth.. ..Yet Kenyetta (the father of modern Kenya) welded some 42 disparate tribes into a nation, encouraged foreign investment and advanced what he called 'African socialism,' a concept which compels the government to apply its energies where private investment is unin-volved. unin-volved. And Kenyatta was far kinder to the West than it was to him." |