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...Pennsylvanians visited Washington last Thursday, stopping first to listen to Schweiker on Capitol Hill. He got a polite hearing with his plea that "if Governor Reagan can cross the sound barrier and ask me to join him, I can cross the sound barrier and join him in a coalition for victory." Even a longtime Schweiker friend and former campaign manager, Drew Lewis, urged support for Ford. James Stein, 21, once a Reagan admirer, said Reagan had lost "credibility" with him. "At least I know where Gerald Ford stands, and I can take him at his word...
...these Felker connections may be only that, a whiff, the content of [MORE]'s new issue gives off such a stench of conspiracy that you'll forget mere takeover theories. Foremost on the list of subjects is Spiro Agnew, who would still be in prison were it not for plea-bargainers in the Justice Department like Elliot Richardson. Instead, Spiro the Kickbacker is on the bestseller list, with a novel charging, among other rantings and ravings, that a Jewish cabal controls the media and exerts extreme pro-Zionist influence on American foreign policy. Unfortunately, [MORE] chooses to take Agnew seriously...
...acknowledges, "I'm not the world's best speaker," and the fact is that his high-pitched voice can be irritating. Yet twelve hours after Carter put him on the ticket, he did a better than creditable job in his acceptance speech, with an impassioned Humphreyesque plea for a return to the old-fashioned virtue of compassion. It was a sermon that he began to learn nearly half a century ago from a populist Methodist minister and a proud woman in the small, stricken towns of Minnesota...
...people about their own form of government. We have felt the effects of America's direct and indirect, but very powerful, support for the racist and colonialist forces of southern Africa. And we have seen American power time and again being used to fight freedom on the plea that it is fighting Communism...
Trap for Whom? Today there seems to be a rise in the number of such claims, but in fact the concept has never enjoyed much judicial support. In 1864 a Judge Bacon of New York remembered that the plea was "first interposed in Paradise: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' That defense was overruled by the great Lawgiver, and [it] has never since availed." Well, hardly ever. The defense was recognized for the first time in a federal court in 1915. In two later cases-involving a police agent in 1932 who begged an acquaintance...