The year 1974 was one of our country's most newsworthy years - including the first resignation of a President and his succession by a President and Vice President who were not elected by the people. Yet, the event with the greatest potential for … [Read more...] about TEXTBOOKS & PARENTS
SCALI UN SPEECH
When U.S. Delegate to the United Nations John A. Scali delivered his remarkable speech lambasting what he called "the tyranny of the majority," he expressed the views of most Americans who are dismayed by the hypocrisy of the UN in welcoming the … [Read more...] about SCALI UN SPEECH
PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCES
It is time we recognize that presidential press conferences are merely television spectaculars that sometimes mislead instead of in form the public. During the last press conference, President Ford made several misleading statements, and reporters … [Read more...] about PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCES
CHRISTMAS HOPE
If there ever was a time when the world needs the Christmas message of Hope, it is today. On all sides we are confronted by the prophets of gloom and doom. The environ mentalists foresee a dismal future of man's greed consuming the earth. The … [Read more...] about CHRISTMAS HOPE
FOREIGN HANDOUTS
One of the many good effects we can hope for from the recent passage of the new amendments to the Freedom of Information Act is the declassification and release of State Department documents spelling out the full extent of U.S. foreign aid, and what … [Read more...] about FOREIGN HANDOUTS
ILLEGAL ALIENS
Attorney General William B. Saxbe recently stated that, if the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service were given an additional $50 million appropriation, it could round up and deport one million illegal aliens now in the United States. That … [Read more...] about ILLEGAL ALIENS
SIBERIAN SUMMIT
During the recent furor about Cyprus, NEWSWEEK Magazine quoted Henry Kissinger as saying about President Ford: "He doesn't know what it's all about." Those words sounded harsh at the time, but they accurately express the way President Ford played out … [Read more...] about SIBERIAN SUMMIT
NOBEL PRIZES
The biggest surprise in the intellectual world during 1974 was the awarding of one-half of a Nobel Prize for Economics to Professor Friedrich von Hayek of Austria -- the leading living scholar espous ing the free-market philosophy. The Nobel Prize … [Read more...] about NOBEL PRIZES
CHARLOTTE REID
Silly and unsubstantiated charges have recently been leveled at Charlotte Reid, former U.S. Congresswoman from Illinois and now a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. With all the people in Washington who have been ·proven to be … [Read more...] about CHARLOTTE REID
THE RIGHT NOT TO VOTE
After the 1974 election returns showed that only 38 percent of the voting-age population cast ballots the American people have been subjected to recriminations from do-gooders who bemoan the failure of the majority to do their "citizen's duty" and … [Read more...] about THE RIGHT NOT TO VOTE
