Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Capra's classic cinemorality play, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, an idealistic hick politician successfully filibusters the Senate into accepting his impassioned arguments. Last week another Mr. Smith - also a country boy, albeit a shrewd one from a far country - went to Washington seeking somewhat the same kind of improbable result. But to no avail. After four whirlwind days in the capital promoting his "internal settlement" approach to biracial government in Rhodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith failed to impress even many of the 27 Senators who had invited him to Washington over State Department objection...
President Carter flatly refused to meet the Rhodesians, telling a press conference: "I do not intend to see Mr. Smith. There is no reason for me to meet with him." Smith's best moment, as a result, was a session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There he declared that all four members of the executive council are prepared to attend "with no preconditions" an all-parties conference on Rhodesia's future, sponsored by the U.S. and Britain, and including Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. After checking out Smith's statement with his Rhodesian...
...detriment to itself; perhaps you should collaborate with Moynihan on that issue--after all he espouses the belief that it is the black family here in America which is at fault for black society's misery and poverty. To a rational human being, these statements sound absurd, yet you, Mr. Kilson, adhere to these beliefs faithfully. I would like to tell you that my Black brothers and sisters here at Harvard have done nothing but bolster my pride in our potential as a people, and in my potential as a Black individual. They have adopted me, instructed me, and cared...
...Mr. Chomsky cites the massacre of 100,000 persons in the Timors by Indonesian forces as an illustration. That may well be true. But how many persons have known of the massacres of the Kurds by the Iraquis in recent years, or the Nagas by India, let alone the hundreds of thousands of African peoples in the bloody tribal wars in Central Africa...
...Mr. Chomsky is a genuine man of conscience. It is a pity that, increasingly--as in his defense of the Cambodian government--his has become more and more divorced from intellect. Adam Kadmon