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As a consulting psychologist, I want to raise a vigorous objection to the conclusion of your article "Merchants of Debt" [Feb. 28]. You assert that "the advantages of widespread easy credit far outweigh its drawbacks ... psychologically, in the ability to satisfy impulse and indulge expansive moods."
Young's response to these insights has been commendable: he has avoided self-righteousness and focused on what he considers tangible pressures for change that the U.S. can bring to bear. He believes strongly that the Carter administration can convince international business firms tied to the South African and Rhodesian...
In private discussions, investigative reporters like Bob Woodward of Watergate fame (who also broke the Hussein story) describe their role in cat-mouse terms: it's the Government's job to keep secrets, the reporter's job to ferret them out. Editorially defending its story, the Post sanctimoniously praised President...
President Bok, who several years ago refused to send Harvard advisors to Saudi Arabia to work on a graduate school there, said yesterday that although he had no part in approving the acceptance of the gift, he had no objection to it.
These last examples bring up a very major objection to Barry Fell's theories. With so many mini-kingdoms all over the North American continent, with all those traders bustling about, and even mining settlements in many places, why is there no hard archeological evidence other than Fell's alleged...