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...Black students. Why do you campaign only for the Administration to make the threatened feel safe? Why do you not campaign also, long and hard and in detail, against those who make the threats, as well as against those who "normally" foster such outrages, encourage them, enjoy them, privately applaud them? Unless Massachusetts and University Halls have dispatched youthful agents to shout racist remarks or scribble the snotty graffitti on Harvard's bathroom and elevator walls, or Faculty members and other employees commit these offenses, it must be your White fellow students who do them. Why not find...
...President-elect Ronald Reagan, one of the not-so-incidental pleasures of his visit to Washington last week was the chance to applaud a legislative harbinger of his upcoming Administration. While Reagan was in town, the Senate passed a measure that would prohibit the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered busing in school desegregation cases. "I am heart and soul in favor of the things that have been done in the name of civil rights and desegregation," said Reagan. "I happen to believe, however, that busing has been a failure." The measure, proposed as a rider to an appropriations bill...
Extremely well organized and prepared, the President targets his audiences carefully. In Boston, with Kennedy at his side, Carter appears before an audience of some 500 elderly people and effectively portrays Reagan as a foe of Social Security, Medicare, health insurance and unemployment insurance. The old people applaud. To New Jersey labor leaders, Carter says Reagan opposes labor law reform. Scoffs Carter: "Ronald Reagan says unemployment compensation is a free paid vacation for freeloaders." In a state where the race is close, but a must win for Carter, the labor leaders nod and nudge each other...
Billy Collucci is a jazz pianist, playing his music five nights a week. Nobody listens. The busboys applaud--but only to be polite. He plays for himself, by himself...
Greenspan: Some of these deregulation efforts were started during the Ford Administration, but I do applaud the progress Carter has made. My only difficulty is that during the President's first three years in office, the number of pages of regulations in the Federal Register went...