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...article on Black English [Aug. 7]: I am sorry to say that the theories of my friends and colleagues Joe Dillard and Bill Stewart, as reported in your article, contain a number of inaccuracies that may mislead your readers...
...using stolen documents, Anderson has no scruples, except that he and his staff do no pilfering themselves. He says that he believes the Constitution to be divinely inspired-an idea he derives from Mormon theology-and he interprets it as forbidding Government secrecy that allows officials to mislead the public. "The framers of the Constitution did not intend that," he maintains...
...situation in Connecticut was special-but not the anger at politicians who seem to mislead the public. A milder form of that anger was directed here and there at the Administration for continuing to issue rosy proclamations about the economy. Republican James Scheurenbrand, a bank president in Evanston, Ill., plans to vote for Nixon again, but he recently objected that "glowing statements from Washington are at variance with what people are experiencing. There is too much hard sell. It's eroding the Administration's credibility. People are looking for real answers." Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware recently...
...Extremism in any movement-despite its attention-getting value-scares off potential followers, and makes it all too easy for dissenters to attack or ridicule its aims. Women's Lib is no exception. There is the further danger that female chauvinism will mislead and confuse the women themselves, particularly younger ones who have little experience to give them ballast. Consider, for example, the consequences of distorting or exaggerating three of the movement's most enlightening propositions...
...that his institution is "a big, fat New York bank hoarding capital" and held "a clear bias toward centralized Government control" of private business. Says Wriston: "Most of the Nader team saw the experience as an adversary proceeding. Whatever you told them, they acted like you were trying to mislead." The investigators turned down an offer from the bank for each of its division heads to give an hour-long lecture on his own job. They also declined an invitation to an informal lunch with top management, feeling that it might appear to compromise them...