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...said, of just negotiating another round of world tariff cuts. "We have gone into too many negotiations abroad in which all we have done is to negotiate down whereas others have negotiated up," the President said. With Orwellian logic, he added: "In order to get a policy of freer trade, we must always have in the background protection...
...first illusion is the supposed novelty of the threat. The press has been chummier with past administrators; some bureaucracies have been freer with information. But pressure on journalists to hold off on criticism or to stick to already public sources of information has always existed. The panic is misleading because the government's ability to wiretap, to classify documents over-zealously, and to regulate the electronic media through licensing investigations pose more immediate threats to the public's access to information. No one is advocating outright censorship or the licensing of newspapers. The pressures confronting the press are less direct...
...Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
There was little doubt that the debate had been somewhat freer than Marcos had intended. The grace period of debate was his response to critics who argued that a referendum held under the strict regulations of martial law could hardly provide a true index of popular attitudes. Opponents of the new charter, which provides for a parliamentary form of government, fielded a range of articulate spokesmen, among them Jesuit priests and members of Marcos' own party. They argued-convincingly, it would seem-that the constitution would give Marcos dictatorial powers for as long as he wanted them (it sets...
...other continents and other ages." Without large-scale private investments and technical aid from the capitalist world he says it will take centuries to lift themselves up from the inhuman poverty in which they exist today. Here is a plan -- a concrete program - which joins the cause of a freer and better life in America to the struggle for national liberation abroad and throughout the underdeveloped world. For those who have not lost faith in America, and in the New World of which America is a part, here is on opportunity to revive that faith in action...