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...substance of his responsibilities is much less secure, and he threatens to push his principles to an extreme. A military buildup faster than the country can afford, combined with tax cuts so deep they produce staggering deficits, could lead to total economic stagnation. This, in turn, could discredit the whole conservative agenda. If that happens, Ronald Reagan risks having his current term eventually regarded as an aberrational interlude in American politics, rather than the start of a significant change in the direction of Government...
President Reagan declared that the nuclear-arms freeze won in several states because foreign agents worked hard for it. Were 10.8 million out of 18 million Americans who voted on the issue fooled by this evil group, or is the President trying to discredit those who voted their conscience...
...President expects those Latin American countries that rely on U.S. guns or dollars to, if asked, help him discredit Marxism in public speeches. Last month, for example, the Administration sponsored a "forum for peace and democracy," at which Caribbean and Latin American allies in effect swore allegiance to capitalism and shared the President's disdain for socialism and communism. But despite all his efforts to prevail ideologically. Reagan has achieved only marginal success...
Spiegelman points to a disturbingly plausible reason the media attempts to dismember, discredit and distort anti-militarist politics "The major mass media are intimately linked to the military-industrial-banking-complex, which has every thing to lose it as Brecht put it in Mother Courage, 'peace breaks out "'Morgan Guaranty Trust (MGT) holds top percentages of voting stock in the Washington Post (MGT is the third most powerful voter), the Gannett Newspapers. CBS, Time, and ABC. The bank also holds the leading percentages of voting stock in defense corporations such as United Technologies (where MGT holds the number-one voting...
Whatever his reasons for running, Kenyatta did not have much of an effect on the race in the end. Except for his influence on the Hill campaign, which spent a great deal of time trying to discredit his candidacy, he left little mark on the election. Even in Black wards, Kenyatta picked up so few Black votes that the Philadelphia Inquirer termed his candidacy "inconsequential" and Rizzo easily won more votes than all his opponents...