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...call for that proverbial man on horseback lacks conviction and urgency. If a single one of the men who want to be President has dimensions of greatness, he has hardly been able to demonstrate them in the dubious debate about the strategic importance of the Panama Canal, or whether Henry Kissinger should stay or go, or just how big Big Government is or should be. A war like Viet Nam, 10% unemployment, Dust Bowls and soup lines make it easier to assess a potential President. It is hard for our politicians to live with success...
What crossover vote [May 17]? Did anyone ever think that people voted for Ronald Reagan to protest Gerald Ford and the pardon he gave to former President Nixon? Reagan had the issues: foreign policy, national security, the post offices and the Panama Canal giveaway...
...anyone back a candidate (Reagan) who supports the idea of having the United States become a warfare state? What we certainly don't need is another senseless military conflict (over the Panama Canal...
Reporter Bernard Diederich's article regarding la dolce vita in the Panama Canal Zone [May 17] adds nothing new to an already overworked stereotype. Most rational people living here, including the military and civilian employees, realize that the canal issue is a question of when, not if. To drag out the same cliches about the Zonians' insular existence simply adds fuel to an overly explosive situation...
...property taxes on a plot of land which, courtesy of that same Harvard, is a private garden where some 20 or 30 of the sons of alumni who made large donations (let them donate their own goddamn garden!), can drink martinis while they decide whether the Panama Canal will be safer under Ford or Reagan; when I see that all of this occurs with the approval of a majority of Harvard students who are either stupid enough to be misled or unprincipled enough to be apathetic about these and similar issues, I am glad that at least The Crimson continues...