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...publicly that their judgment had been misunderstood, more than 200 instances occurred in which various local judges attempted to bar the press from their courts. Last week a Supreme Court that appeared embarrassed by the consequences of its earlier decision not only overruled Judge Taylor but went on to proclaim a broad "right of access" by the press to criminal trials, and possibly other governmental proceedings as well...
...part of a new concern for Russia's historical culture. The best-known proponent of religious renewal is exiled Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, but its keenest and most significant supporters are in the Soviet Union. Members of the Christian Seminar on Problems of Religious Renaissance, formed in 1974, proclaim: "We heard a call to salvation-the voice of our ancestors, our fathers, our saints. We found Russia...
...object to the priority but to the publicity. There were two mistakes. One was to proclaim the hostages the central issue of foreign policy; the price goes up by the very importance you attach publicly to the hostages. The other mistake was to create the impression that there was some price we would pay to get them released. This turned it from an issue of principle into an issue of haggling over terms...
...from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger came the same support. He urged Carter to proclaim the virtues of failed action in a just cause over inaction, to seize this moment and make it a test of his moral strength and call the country to follow. "I believe," said Kissinger, "the country is better...
...critics likewise have railed against the inequities, uncertainties and the social flux it creates. As Karl Marx saw it, "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned." Foes charge that the capitalist system perpetuates grave inequalities of wealth and extravagantly rewards success. Communists proclaim that capitalism demands periodic depressions as the way to keep workers poor and subservient. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm wrote that 19th century capitalism's drive for profit made people overly competitive, warped and aggressive. Finally, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith argues that free enterprise values wasteful private consumption more than needed public services...