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Certainly, Carter has been hurt by the Lance affair. His reputation as the champion of ethical purity has been permanently tarnished???a point that Delaware's Republican Senator William Roth hammered home with devastating effectiveness last week merely by citing two Carter comments before the Ribicoff committee: "Just staying within the law will never be enough for a Carter campaign or a Carter Administration." And: "The Watergate tragedy showed that concealment of a mistake or impropriety can be more serious in some instances than the impropriety itself." Just how seriously Carter's effectiveness has been damaged is less clear...
...about its actions in Chile, which, on balance, are hard to justify. While it cannot rule out covert operations in all circumstances, the nation must remember that it has better and stronger weapons to rely on: its economic and technological weight, its diplomacy, its cultural impact and ?though tarnished???its freedom...
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