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...approve radical approaches, despite such egregious failures as Castro's Cuba." Apparently, what is little realized by TIME are the reasons for this approval. Many of us do not judge Fidel's government merely on its failure to attain the promised sugar-cane crop or on its harsh food-rationing measures. Castro's achievements in education, health and in the fight against poverty are an egregious success in comparison to the achievements of most Latin American governments. Far more Latin Americans than you seem willing to accept consider the Cuban revolution an event as important for Latin...
...that they intend to play it tough. If an official or a foreign diplomat is kidnaped, they maintain that they will reject ransom demands in an effort to discourage terrorists from trying again. Despite the obvious need for toughness in such situations, any democratic country faces dangers from too harsh as well as from too weak a reaction. The only countries that may prove immune to the new terror may be the most authoritarian ones. Winning out over terror is of little benefit if it leads to a police force with permanently enlarged powers and a citizenry with permanently curtailed...
...Some of the pieces are hugely funny, but many seem a trifle flat, lacking the sudden explosion of unexpected phrases that makes much of his prose so spectacular. Perhaps America was getting him down as he wrote these pieces, dampening his usually exuberant imagination with a little too much harsh reality...
Largely the concept of the White House's resident liberal, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, FAP would provide a guaranteed minimum income of $1,600 annually to every welfare family of four. It would eliminate the harsh proviso of many state laws that cuts off aid to a mother and her children if the father returns to live with them. The program would initially add an estimated 12 million poor people to welfare rolls, which now carry 11.6 million. But through provisions for day-care centers for the children of working mothers and requirements that able-bodied recipients must either work...
Slater is harsh with our half-hearted attempts at solution...