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...snorted when I read the two letters you published protesting Peking's program to rid the city of dogs [Jan. 2]. Obviously your correspondents are unknowledgeable about Chinese dogs. Those I remember were ugly, snarling, malnourished, unlovely beasts that would threaten you but then turn tail and run if you stooped as though to pick up a stone...
...miss it. Columnist Carl Rowan says he might kill if he were denied a ticket. He is going in Owner Jack Kent Cooke's jetted and pampered entourage. ''Everybody has a little aggression in them," insists Rowan. "We can all get emotionally involved and get rid of it out on the grass instead of having another bombing contest...
...accurate." That kind of advice infuriates the anti-drunken-driving activists. "Drunk driving is a multimillion-dollar business for lawyers," says an angry Doris Aiken, founder of Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID). She has some advice of her own for the new legion of legal specialists. "The best thing a lawyer can do for the drunk driver," she says, "is to tell him to face the music, and not go after a big fee to get him off." - By Michael S. Serrill...
...saying; we don't think twice about "peace-keeping" and about a "national security directive," and forget to consider what such words really mean. But if we remember for a second what we are really about, the business of electing decent Presidents, it should not be hard to get rid of this whiskey-semantic trance; carry a dictionary and a Constitution about when you listen to the President speak, and refer to them, not to your yearning for the frontier. Then let us hope that in 1985, we can send all the thises, peacekeeping forces and randomly cited percentages back...
...proximity to reality. It's hard to tell how much talent a humorist has, though, when he chooses such an easy target. Stamaty gets his best lines without much more than quoting Presidential statements; in an address to the House. Forehead says, "The only way to get rid of our deficit is to cut taxes. Only when government has no money will it stop spending...