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...trial closed, Vice President Spiro Agnew gave voice to what many feel when he denounced the Chicago defendants as "anarchists and social misfits" during a speech at a Republican fund-raising dinner in St. Paul. "Fortunately for America," said Agnew, "the system proved equal to the challenge. That jury came in with an American result." New York's Mayor John Lindsay was of a different mind. "All of us, I think, see in that trial a tawdry parody of our judicial system," he said. "When a trial becomes fundamentally an examination of political acts and beliefs, then guilt...
More deeply, the question concerns presidential leadership. Confronted last week by a television interviewer, Spiro Agnew described the presidential position as "a responsibility to enforce the laws of the land." Surely a President's franchise is larger than a sheriff's. Americans look to him for moral leadership...
...Papadopoulos in July, 1965, returned to Athens in 1967. His front was the Esso-Pappas concern, a Greek-American gas and oil corporation. Pappas himself had professed that Greece needs a military dictatorship. The Boston Pappas Foundation, headed by Tom Pappas (a friend and leading financial backer of Spiro Agnew, formerly Anagnostopoulos, another junta enthusiast) channels CIA money into Greece. Pappas has openly avowed his connection with the CIA. Pavlos Totomis, a Pappas employee, was made Minister of Public Order by the grateful colonels. Greek contracts with Esso were improved after the coup...
...Administration's finer weeks in dealing with the nation's racial problems. At a Republican fund-raising dinner in Chicago, Vice President Spiro Agnew attacked as "supercilious sophisticates" any who advocate "open admissions" of minority students to the nation's colleges. He seemed to suggest that an open-admissions policy is a kind of intellectual version of busing. Admittedly, the policy has dangers and must be administered carefully. But Agnew's assertion that the main criterion for admission to college should be aptitude, while it sounds unimpeachable, in fact ignores the realities...
Sorry, Mr. Agnew. That sort of show business record makes Pet sound like the frenetic creation of some monstrous manager, or Jackie Susann. But those who have seen her on the concert or club stage-her natural habitat -realize that she is a diffident, dignified woman with a whimsical intelligence. She comes on with almost no preliminary patter, precious little makeup and a gown and a hairdo she does herself. There is none of the oppressive overproduction that is now the vogue in cabaret acts-the choreography down to the last twitch, the scripting of every gasp, the obtrusive gags...