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...justify his ends--and remain in power. Only with his departure, therefore, will Massachusetts fully embark on an experiment in responsible self-government. Until then, the Commonwealth will probably retain the dubious distinction accorded to it by the historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the least efficient and most corrupt of modern state governments...
...thrust of the broadcast, you failed to report any of it. I look forward to the day, after the litigation is over, when Americans who did not see the broadcast the first time around will have the opportunity to view it and determine for themselves whether charges of corrupt intelligence practices leveled not by us, but by former high-ranking intelligence officers from the military and the CIA, were or were not accurate...
Sophisticated readers know that by comparison with the highly ideological press in Western Europe-or, for that matter, the noisy, brawling, relentlessly partisan and even corrupt papers that were the norm when the First Amendment was written-the modern U.S. press is distinctively balanced. By the standards of the late 19th and early 20th century era of "yellow journalism," the American reporter today is a model of responsibility and restraint...
This gaping hole in the liberal view of the world becomes very salient when one considers Central America. While Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, New York Representative Stephen Solarz and others chide the Reagan Administration for its callous support of corrupt and repressive retimes in Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador and other places, these people have nothing to say about Israel's role in selling arms to these same repressive regimes. Happily, Errol Louis breaks the ice by making it clear to all who oppose the apartheid regime in South Africa that they must also begin to oppose the foreign and military...
...government squads that practice torture. (11) And news stories about the recent visits of Israeli defense officials to Zaire to set up arms and training arrangements often did not mention that Zaire's dictator, General Mobutu, is considered by some to be one of the most ruthless (and most corrupt) heads of state...