Word: libertarianism
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...would say the most important is the change in the attitudes, the temper of our people. In 1972 everybody was ready to give up and abandon the republic, democracy and the libertarian ideas that we have. We did not adopt the socialist or Communist ideology [but instead preserved] a free enterprise system committed to egalitarian ideals and the elimination of that wide gap between the rich and the poor...
...White Album is mellower than Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Didion ranges more widely. A libertarian with a trace of Goldwater in her, an individualistic Westerner, Didion writes witheringly of bureaucrats who would tie up the Santa Monica Freeway (an eccentric passion of the woman in the yellow Corvette) by installing the restrictive "Diamond Lane." Didion, a sometime screenwriter, gives a wonderful insider's analysis of Hollywood as "the last extant stable society." She dismisses the women's movement with some hauteur: "To those of us who remain committed mainly to the ex ploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities...
...violence that has claimed more than 1,500 lives in the past 18 months. The worst incident occurred in December, when 111 people were killed in a sectarian clash between the generally right-wing Sunni Muslims and the often left-leaning Shi'ite Muslims. An ardent civil libertarian, Ecevit reluctantly imposed martial law in 13 of Turkey's 67 provinces. Martial law was later extended to six eastern provinces to head off potential Kurdish unrest stimulated by the revolution in Iran...
...Leda Cosmides '79, president of the Harvard Libertarian Association, cited real philosophical differences between the clubs. She said that libertarians believe all public involvement and cooperation in government should be voluntary, whereas conservatives favor some degree of force...
Cosmides indicated that cooperation with the Conservative Club would be possible. She said the Libertarian newsletter would publish any article the Conservative Club submits "as long as it agrees with our position on the specific issue...