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...quick in its effect, that California businessmen swamped him like groupies, formed a "Friends of Ronald Reagan" committee, begged him to run for Governor. He had to be pushed. Yet in 1966 the former star of Juke Girl snatched the governorship of California by a million votes from incumbent Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who must have thought he was the victim of an accident. (Reagan also starred in Accidents Will Happen...
...Iran dared to believe that the hostages might be home for Christmas. The optimism ebbed when Iran's latest bargaining statement, labeled a "final answer" by Iranian leaders, arrived in Washington early Friday, the 412th day of the hostage ordeal. The message was "unreasonable," said Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, because it "would require us to do things which we cannot do legally." It also, he added, made it very difficult to resolve the matter before the inauguration...
More important, the Soviets would be forced to take over Poland's enfeebled economy, a $21 billion hard-currency debt to the West and a mutinous population. All of these costs, as Secretary ol State Edmund Muskie noted last week, would be "taken out of the hides of the Soviet people." The low-keyed rumbles of discontent in the U.S.S.R. about deaths and injuries suffered by an invasion force of 85,000 in Afghanistan would grow far louder if Soviet troops were bloodied in a Polish occupation...
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie met today with the NATO allies, attempting to formulate a unified Western position on the crisis. Harold Brown, the secretary of defense, said that several AWAC reconnaissance planes had been dispatched to West Germany, presumably to keep a closer watch on Soviet troop movements along the Polish border...
...Tradition with a capital T rise from the pages of I'll Take My Stand. In the midst of the noisy bash of the jazz age, the writers deplore the decline of "manners, conversation, hospitality, sympathy, family life, romantic love." While Yankee highbrows like E.E. Cummings and Edmund Wilson were discovering the seven lively arts, the Agrarians were frowning on movies and imploring the yeomen of Tennessee to switch off their Atwater Kent radios, take down that country fiddle from the wall and scrape out an Elizabethan air. Their best poet, John Crowe Ransom, magically evoked a land where...