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...Screenwriter William Goldman (All the President's Men) are not content with making an espionage yarn. They have tarted up their story with phony resonances intended to link it to such things as war guilt, the Nazis and the Jews, McCarthy witch-hunting, and the blight of urban decay as emblematic of modern anomie. Thrillers can deal fleetly with ideas, even difficult ones...
...moral issues at stake for this great country are the material waste and moral decay brought about by the arms race, open or clandestine intervention in the domestic life of other countries, support for unpopular and authoritarian governments, and the establishment, together with other powerful nations, of an unjust international structure - in short, the formulation and implementation of a foreign policy subservient to the dictates of the economic interests of large consortiums, instead of to the moral imperatives that have always distinguished the people...
...cities above the Mason-Dixon line struggle with decay and impoverishment; Houston, Dallas and Atlanta are large-scale success stories. The tide of migration is reversing; the South is now receiving white-collar workers, middle management and an intellectual elite from the North...
Equally important are the vigorous efforts by Southern states to lure businessmen fed up with high taxes, physical decay and demanding unions in the old urban centers of the North. Georgia, for example, working with information supplied by its Chamber of Commerce, zeroes in on "suspect companies," which are feeling the pain of ever deeper tax bites in the North. Once a year about 35 executives are given a lavish "red carpet" tour of the state. Each tour brings an average of $50 million in capital investment and 1,000 new jobs...
...hated each other for years. The campaign never rose above the personal level. Charging that Steiger had "scandals and skeletons" in his closet, Conlan preached a hard-nosed gospel of "getting all Godfearing people to come out of the pews and go to the polls to stop the moral decay that is eroding our country." Supporters of Conlan wrote letters asking some 800 clergymen to persuade church members to vote for him because "it sure would be nice to have a man with a clear testimony for Jesus Christ representing Arizona and America." Steiger called his opponent a "total plastic...