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Pragmatic & Positive. "I respect our Republican members of Congress," Evans told New York Timesman Tom Wicker during an interview in Olympia, the capital, "but they are a minority. They can't really take the lead in solving problems. And when they do have constructive suggestions, the Democratic majority can and does take them over as their own. So it's only our Republican Governors who can really be positive leaders today. This gives them a real opportunity. The Governors are in a position to recognize the problems of their states and then take the lead in doing something...
Evans' emphasis is purely pragmatic. "The people these days are problem-oriented, not philosophy-oriented," he told Wicker. "The people want their problems solved, and they don't worry much about whether they are solved at the local, state or federal level." In this respect Evans is a full-fledged apostle of "creative federalism" (TIME ESSAY, May 27), which calls for a fresh spirit of partnership among all levels of Government. A corollary of the theory is what Rockefeller calls "the new federalism," which urges the states and localities to recapture the initiative from Washington, wherever possible...
...editors of the New York Times, the story obviously seemed significant. It began with more than half a column on the front page and carried over to a full page inside. Written by Times Washington Bureau Chief Tom Wicker, the piece was based on a handout: a statement calling for a more liberalized U.S. policy toward Communist China, including eventual diplomatic recognition and admission to the United Nations. Wicker emphasized that the statement had been signed by "198 academic experts on China," all of whom belong to the Association for Asian Studies. Happy to have so many experts agreeing with...
...association's national secretary, L. A. Peter Gosling, associate professor of geography at the University of Michigan, was even blunter. Calling Wicker's article "factually inaccurate^" Gosling estimated that only one-third of the signers could be considered China experts. By paying $15-a-year dues, anyone who demonstrates an interest in Asia can join the association; members range from anthropologists to theologians to librarians. Moreover, charged Gosling, some of the signers do not belong to the association; nor was the entire membership contacted and given a chance to sign the paper. "It was disorganized," says Gosling. "They...
Acute Scholaritis. "I and the New York Times," says Wicker, "thought and still think the document was a considerable contribution to debate on the subject." He attributed the complaints to what he calls the "China lobby." But the fact is that the criticism came from all quarters. In his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, David Nelson Rowe, political science professor at Yale, charged the Times with "at the very least a gross distortion of the meaning of the statistics. Such are the distortions of propagandistic journalism." The liberal Reporter magazine editorialized: "The Times built the release...