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...vacuum has been filled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, whose advice has nearly always led to disaster. Even David Broder, the Washington Post's normally temperate columnist, last week joined the growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...
...penitents who have rushed to confess to smoking dope have agreed that it is. "It was a mistake," said Babbitt. "I wish I hadn't," said Gore. "I hope that the young people of this country, including my own daughters, will learn from my mistake," said Ginsburg, withdrawing. Conversely, Columnist Tom Wicker, in a biting critique of the phony moralism and "sudden piety" of Ginsburg's attackers, felt compelled to preface his remarks about marijuana smokers by assuring his readers that "I am not now and never have been one of them." An odd credential to flash. It undermines Wicker...
...duty. Those who are accepted will be issued weapons and given training. The Communists are fighting back. Police last week found the body of a man in a cloth bag along a Manila highway. On the sack were the words THIS IS A VIGILANTE. Says Max Soliven, a columnist for the daily Philippine Star: "The seeds of civil war are being sown, and nobody can predict where it will...
Write letters to friendly editors asking them to help you "awaken the conscience" of America to deal with the trouble. When a leading columnist suggests that by using Government so dramatically in the crisis you are interfering with natural economic law, ignore...
...security dissolved. "I feel a lot poorer today," sighed Bee Fitzpatrick, a New Orleans mother of two. Even if the market recovers some ground over the next few weeks, many people will still be uneasy about the future after seeing how far and how fast stocks can fall. As Columnist Robert Reno of Newsday, a New York newspaper, put it, "Nobody who has been on a falling elevator and survived ever again approaches such a conveyance without a fundamentally reduced degree of confidence...