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JOSEPH McCARTHY--America's premier Red-hunter--levelled accusations of treason at people he knew nothing about, often not even their names. He lied with such boldness that he distracted a nation and shot it full of distrust. Few regret it more than journalists. By offering the print of page-one articles and the air-time of lead stories, American news media fed McCarthy the publicity he needed. Edwin R. Bayley focuses on that process in his new book, McCarthy and the Press. In a world seemingly vulnerable to media-made images, he offers the comforting notion that today...
...President. No administration, Democratic or Republican, has been able to perfectly forecast and control the infinite complexities of the American economy. To expect this of President Reagan is to ascribe to him even more omniscient power than some conservatives do. Nevertheless, the Crimson editor seems to base his distrust on this supposedly intended "deceit...
...creation of a permanent committee composed of government and labor leaders to discuss Poland's pressing economic problems. Mutual distrust, however, remains so profound that the suggestion quickly became the focus of a new row between the party and Solidarity. The union's eleven-man presidium rejected the offer because it objected to the inclusion of the old Communist-controlled unions, which still claim to have 4 million members. The government termed Solidarity's response "outrageous," but nonetheless accepted the union's offer to hold bilateral talks on how to alleviate the growing food shortages...
...sponsors of the Roe bill, who include such liberals as Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), as well as conservatives such as Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), share the distrust for academics...
Ilene B. Weininger '84, HRCC treasurer, said yesterday that while the philosophies of the group run the gamut from libertarianism to "New Right", the members share two basic principles--"a belief in individual responsibility and autonomy" and a "distrust of communism...