It is imperative that we stop U.S. banks from giving preferential loans to the Soviet Bloc. We must make sure that U.S. businesses are not subsidized in their trade with the Soviet Bloc. First, it is intolerable for U.S. banks to give better rates … [Read more...] about Guidelines for U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade
Education Reporter — December 1988
SDI is Cost-Effective Defense
Senator Sam Nunn gave his 20-second sound bit for the evening television news a few days ago. SDI, he said, “is a technology, not a theology.” Nunn has it backwards. SDI is indeed a theology – more precisely an ideology – not just a technology. … [Read more...] about SDI is Cost-Effective Defense
Parts of Gorby’s Speech That Didn’t Make Headlines
Soviet Party boss Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t come to New York to deliver the olive branch of peace and renunciation of war. He came to the United Nations to give the fawning liberal media some headlines about promised troop reductions while he … [Read more...] about Parts of Gorby’s Speech That Didn’t Make Headlines
Open Letter to President Reagan
Time is fast running out on your second term. Congress has adjourned, the election is over, and the public’s mind is taking a welcome recess from politics. You have only a few weeks left to tidy up and leave your House in order for your … [Read more...] about Open Letter to President Reagan
The Growing Use and Misuse of Ritalin
Recent journals of the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association have brought out into the open forum of public discussion a practice that has hitherto evaded coverage in ordinary media channels. This is the accelerating and … [Read more...] about The Growing Use and Misuse of Ritalin
Who are the Enemies of the Blacks?
Conventional wisdom is that the welfare state is the savior of the blacks, who are presumed to need the goodies of government generosity in order to alleviate their status of poverty and years of discrimination. Now comes one of the most prominent … [Read more...] about Who are the Enemies of the Blacks?
Our Great Opportunity for Real Arms Control
Pressure will be on the Bush Administration to cut defense spending in tandem with domestic spending cuts. However, what we need to spend on defense has no relation whatsoever to domestic spending. Defense spending should depend on the threat to … [Read more...] about Our Great Opportunity for Real Arms Control
The American Civil Liberties Union Policies — December 1988
The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
For those of us who lived through the dramatic events of November 22, 1963, the many recent television programs revisiting the Kennedy assassination had a morbid fascination. There still are, as Walter Cronkite opined in his PBS documentary, an … [Read more...] about The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
