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...correct in describing President Reagan's new federal anticrime laws as historic and far reaching [LAW, Oct. 29]. But the criminal-law experts you cite, who express doubt about the act's effect on the crime rate, fail to recognize the practical significance of these reforms. The laws contain tough new measures to help fight organized crime and major drug trafficking, which have been estimated to cause as much as half of all street crime. The anticrime package also contains more than 50 new sections, many of which enhance local law-enforcement efforts. These include statutes providing...
...Administration insists that its real goals in space are peaceful. Reagan is fascinated by the commercial possibilities; these fit neatly with his campaign theme of establishing "New Frontiers" of technological progress and economic opportunity. Reagan and others cite studies purporting to show that the technological and economic benefits of the space program outweigh the costs by 14 to 1. They note such practical spin-offs as hand-held computers, digital watches, long-lasting flashlight batteries and Teflon-coated frying pans...
...stressed that Mondale's themes are not a sidelight to an acting career, but have been with him throughout his hard-fought climb from the bottom up, from Minnesqta attorney general to senator to vice president. Just to cite a few telling examples: Mondale was one of the sponsors of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, whose intent Reagan tried to gut early on in his Administration. He helped to create the Leagal Services Corporation, whose job of providing legal aid to the poor Reagan tried to eliminate. And at a time when it was unpopular, the early 1970s, Mondale chaired...
Your story on black actors [CINEMA, Oct. 1] suggests that D.W. Griffith purposely avoided using blacks in Birth of a Nation. As evidence you cite the fact that the major Negro roles were all played by whites in blackface. The reason is that in 1915 there were no black actors in Hollywood experienced enough to play these parts. In the interest of realism, Griffith would have hired them if he could have found them...
...interview on an NBC news program last week, Mondale was pressed to cite one positive accomplishment by the current Administration. He could come up with no particulars, until, finally, he admitted, "I think that Reagan's tendency to give an optimistic feeling about the country is good." Mondale grants Reagan more credit for whipping up American optimism than do many analysts. Declares a White House adviser: "It's less a case of Reagan's having caused the mood than it is a matter of his reinforcing it." In describing Reagan's accomplishment, observers seem drawn...