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This diverse range of divestment actions has succeeded in bringing increasing public attention to the contradictory position which the administration holds in regard to divestment. The result has been to make this position increasingly untenable and to help force a partial divestment...
...implement policies. The spirit of these suggestions struck chords of discontent with Hunt. In fact, they clashed with several values which Hunt later defended: the autonomy of the press, the adversarial (not cooperative) relationship between journalists and policymakers, and the "willingness to print the news," in most cases, without regard for an article's impact on society...
Despite the backlash, many editors and law-enforcement officials regard the stories as long overdue. Says Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires: "Washington discovered the problem when Len Bias, a University of Maryland basketball star, died of an overdose. The rest of the country has been concerned for a long time." New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal asserts, "This is not a press-created problem, nor a crisis made by politicians. Drugs are here." Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner argues, "The problem seems overreported only because it was massively underreported before...
...changes in music, movies, codes of dress; quick as terriers; loose as geese; all things that age is not. The power of parents lies in experience and work. The power of children lies in the freedom from those things. Parents, who cannot retrieve that sort of freedom, may regard it with bewilderment, even resentment. They keep their distance...
What the Democrats have done with family-oriented issues is take the conservative's moralistic rhetoric and turn it into progressive humanistic proposals. They would be wise--and savvy--to try to do the same thing in regard to foreign interventionism, the "war on drugs," nuclear "defense", and the environment...