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...nation through war and Watergate, CIA and FBI abuses and, to insult the injured, has consistently lied about it. Vanderbilt University Chancellor Alexander Heard puts it succinctly: "Washington is simply shorthand for the unsuccessful part of our past." Now, says Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr., an Alabama-bred civil libertarian, "any good outsider can beat the establishment of elitists whose interest is to keep the people in the dark...
...ideological crisis, not quite capable of suppression, thus haunts our polity. Even if the U.S. can force the rest of the world to love our brand of democracy--dubious after Viet Nam--do our people have the stomach to support terrorist means to achieve libertarian ends? If not, those who have made foreign policy uninterruptedly since the Second World War seem to fear, then we will be reduced to a role versus the Soviets and Chinese of a "helpless, pitiful giant." Nixon, the author of that phase, and the nation's best pro football fan, would know better than anyone...
...debate in this election year should not be how much and where the government ought to regulate people's lives, but whether it should be regulating their lives at all, Roger MacBride, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, said Friday afternoon...
...Today Washington thinks it has the right to control events around the world," MacBride said. He criticized President Ford's foreign policy, adding, "The libertarian proposition is that the U.S. interventionist foreign policy is not only a failure, but immoral as well...
...deft hand on the economic system but never so heavily as to interfere with the basic logic of the marketplace. As for politics, Mayer says irritably, "I could not care less whether the government calls itself conservative or liberal or radical, Democratic, Republican, American, Socialist, Worker or Libertarian. If we can get the substance right, I can put up with almost any style." In a period of muddled political impulses, Mayer is a valuable man to listen to-a clear-eyed, irascible independent. Lance Morrow