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...admittedly very difficult to "do something" while relying on the free market and trying to curb the statist Leviathan. But that is the narrow bridge on which the conservatives will have to fight. It is not a matter of being "kinder and gentler" but smarter and more imaginative. At present, the challenge is best met by Jack Kemp and Co., who are developing new forms of interaction between the public and private spheres, more individual autonomy without setting the individual adrift. That is, of course, the "New Paradigm" (but won't somebody please invent a less clunky label...
After almost two years at the helm, Salinas can claim some success. On the economic front, he has launched a campaign to reduce Mexico's bloated statist economy and attract foreign investment that has earned high marks from Mexican businessmen and international lenders. But in throwing the country open to inspection by potential investors, Salinas has unwittingly invited scrutiny of the other major prong of his modernization drive: his pledge to build a true multiparty democracy...
...help. These may range from vouchers to enterprise zones to tenant ownership of housing projects. The principle of combining social responsibility with individual initiative, compassion with reward for effort, suggests that the U.S. must partially reinvent capitalism -- and do a more imaginative job of it than the heavily welfare-statist economies of Europe that are increasingly retreating from socialism...
...Communications Director Patrick Buchanan had given supporters of New York Governor Mario Cuomo reason to rejoice. How? By lambasting Cuomo as a "glib, fast-talking lobbyist for a reactionary liberalism" in his campaign against President Reagan's tax-reform plan. And by branding the Democrats' star performer a "welfare statist" who belongs to an "American Left" whose "dirty little secret is that it is interested in power, not people." Such choice abuse, in Buchwald's view, added up to the "kind of endorsement from the White House" that "a Democratic candidate for the presidency would kill...
...American capitalism to create jobs and paths out of poverty. Instead, they contend, the prelates call for Government solutions that already have been tried and found wanting. Said Novak: "In a document that's supposed to be antistatist, it's amazing how many passages are from a statist framework." Adds Simon: "What we need is a larger pie, not a redistribution of the existing one. We threw a trillion dollars at poverty, and we have more poverty now than ever before...