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...Within the promise book is virtually every goal and at least the germ of almost every idea that the challengers are now so ardently proclaiming on the campaign trail. In hindsight's cruel light, we see that the promise book is a gaudy shell wrapped around a void. There is hardly a word about implementing these dreams. So it is in this campaign. The candidates describe how lovely life will be in their fairylands, but they rarely talk about how they are going to get there. That is because getting there is almost...
...Halberstam '55 once called New Hampshire the "land of journalist overkill," and few would disagree. For politicians, pundits and mere voters groping for some tangible indication of which would-be Wizard of Oz to follow down the yellow brick road to the White House, New Hampshire fills a psychological void. New Hampshire takes the vague preconceptions and sets them in bold type; where conflicting polls lose meaning, the neat, unchanging rows of figures give everyone something to latch on to as gospel. "The people have spoken, the fools...
...public television BBC imports, the decade was unmemorable. The networks received more prase for their coverage of the Watergate hearings than for any other programming event. In the '70s the news became entertainment because T.V. offered little else of value. Public and cable TV tried to fill the void: the former by presenting the best of British television paid for (tax deductibly) by the major oil companies; the latter by showing mostly current features and sporting events, paid for by the viewers themselves. If those two forms of television hold forth some hope that the tube might yet be salvageable...
CARTER'S ATTEMPT to clamp down on the export of nuclear technology to Third World nations has met with little success. A number of the United States' allies, notably France and West Germany, have been all too willing to step into the void and to supply expertise and equipment to nations such as Iraq and Brazil. Moreover, last fall a conference of 66 nations and five international organizations, which Carter convened to strengthen his non-proliferation campaign, concluded world-wide development of the fast breeder reactor should go ahead despite the dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation...
Equal Rights Amendment? Hah! It is no longer a cause for ethical fairness and rectification of injustice. ERA, your name has become Intolerance and Void of Conscience. You have become a bully, an oppressor, openly persecuting churches and the public who oppose...