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Cardinal Rule. This rationale makes a certain amount of sense, but is also open to serious criticism. The most emotional but least pertinent argument is that Pakistan was a corrupt military dictatorship while India is "the world's largest democracy." The U.S. has sided, and will have to side again, with all kinds of unpleasant regimes, including Communist ones. The more serious case against the Administration's actions is that 1) the pro-Pakistan policy may actually have encouraged the war; for instance, the Indians were infuriated that the U.S. failed to protest vigorously the imprisonment of Bengali...
...found he had wasted his life. Such an admission to one's self, much less to an admiring audience, is an act of courage; one must not forget the years of effort Daniel Ellsberg had endured in validating his passport to the circle of corrupt power. A Harvard man, a former member of the Crimson and a president of the Advocate, a successful fellow of the Center for International Affairs, and currently a research fellow further up the Charles, at MIT, Ellsberg has been consultant to Henry Kissinger '50 and director of the 1969 Rand Project for the development...
...hand, many conservatives are scornful of the operators and supporters of government benevolence; they speak of bleeding hearts who coddle people too irresponsible to carve their own living in a plentiful nation. The left-wing radicals take an equally harsh view. They feel that the entire system is so corrupt that not even the existing official machinery can correct society's ills, much less the minuscule efforts of an individual. Thus a man who, say, sponsors a ghetto child for two summer weeks in the country might be accused by the politically devoted liberal of ignoring the proper government...
...spite of his inexperience and an amateur campaign staff, Kefauver won his Senate seat in 1948 by defeating the corrupt and powerful Crump machine. After two years as chairman of a special Senate committee investigating organized crime had given Kefauver a national reputation as a soft-spoken crusader for clean government, he decided to challenge President Truman for the nomination...
...campaign. For a presidential race, they reach the astronomical. Richard Nixon spent $29 million in his last election campaign; he is expected to pay out as much as $50 million to win a second term. Yet politicians have remained remarkably complacent about it all. They refuse to amend the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, though not a single person has been convicted under its provisions. Big contributors are scarcely deterred by a prohibition against giving more than $5,000 to a single candidate; they simply spread their largesse among several committees bearing such deceptively nonpartisan titles as Americans for Greater...