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Reagan was less philosophical. He told aides that the House committee action was "irresponsible as hell." But in an interview with six reporters on the day after the vote, Reagan stumbled repeatedly in trying to explain his policies. He seemed to confirm that assistance to the contras was more than just a way to stop arms shipments to the Salvadoran rebels. He referred to the contras as "freedom fighters" and praised their struggle as a legitimate response to the broken promises of the Sandinista regime...
...sometimes difficult being a socialist in America. False identifications of Socialism with totalitarianism and false stereotypes of socialists as being irresponsible loons abound. These misconceptions are a real obstacle to building a socialist movement. The problem with a Spartacists is that they confirm practically every misconception about Socialism there could be. They are totalitarians, and they are irresponsible loons. I hope that their lunacy does not deter people from finding out about the genuine Left on this campus. Tom Canel...
Unfortunately, Sperry looks at ethical questions from a misguided perspective, and he overestimates the ability of science to solve even technical problems. "History and common observation," he writes, "confirm that nothing is more proficient than science at prescribing what ought to prevail in order to achieve almost any defined aim...The same applies in regard to ultimate aims...
...Steiner would not confirm this remark yesterday, adding that he did not know if Calkins had actually made such a statement...
Polish television announced Walesa's release, saying only that he "did not confirm" the fact of his clandestine meetings. Walesa's wife Danuta, who was later ordered to report for a 2½-hour interrogation session, gave Polish authorities no further information beyond the fact that her husband had been absent from their home for three days and that he was "a grownup person." Even Mieczyslaw Wachowski, Walesa's occasional chauffeur, was called in for questioning by the suspicious police...