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This gaping hole in the liberal view of the world becomes very salient when one considers Central America. While Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, New York Representative Stephen Solarz and others chide the Reagan Administration for its callous support of corrupt and repressive retimes in Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador and other places, these people have nothing to say about Israel's role in selling arms to these same repressive regimes. Happily, Errol Louis breaks the ice by making it clear to all who oppose the apartheid regime in South Africa that they must also begin to oppose the foreign and military...
There is in the current protests against our nuclear arsenals at least the faint echo of the question raised more than half a century ago about Haig. Are the men and women in the White House, Pentagon and State Department grown so callous from their endless war games and box scores of missiles and megatonnage that the potential human tragedy has receded in their deliberations...
...MORE callous than the arguments against action is the implied elitism behind such criticism as: "large groups of students behaved like common, uninformed hecklers. "Common? Moi? Yes, Harvard is to some extent an Ivory Tower, and reasoned debate should flourish here if nowhere else, but reasoned debate can go on ad infinitum, even ad nauseam, while "common" people die, watch Marines invade their country, and have their backyards dug up for missile silos. What is called for is reasoned debate and militancy--militancy which, like that of the hecklers, still allows reasoned debate to continue...
...exercise [his] constitutional power of appointment." But Senators of both parties were outraged. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen fulminated that "the President's action is a form of tyranny, the tyranny to put down voices of dissent." Maryland Republican Charles Mathias professed himself "shocked" by Reagan's "callous insensitivity to the efforts of congressional leaders" who had been trying to work out a compromise. John Shattuck, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, voiced a suspicion common among civil rights activists. Said he: "The President's action was really an effort to bludgeon the Civil Rights Commission...
...operation, so why not this?) plane intruding in its airspace, have refused to admit error or to apologize, and have brazenly stated that they would (and will) do so again. This is the truly repugnant aspect of the entire affair--the utter barbarity of the Russians, the callous disregard for human life...