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Reagan suggested that "either we accept the responsibility for our own destiny or we abandon the American Revolution." As for Communism abroad, he argued: "The specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face is that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and appeasement does not give you a choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender." He concluded with a ringing call to responsibility. "Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the Pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns...
...discussion at the end of the program, three CBS newsmen appeared on camera to sum up. Was the U.S. justified in breaking "the rules of international conduct?" asked Kuralt. Johnson's decision, answered Reporter Bert Quint, brought back "the whole specter of Yankee imperialism in Latin America. It was a decision that is making a lot of Latin Americans hate us." Then Kuralt and Quint turned for guidance to Eric Sevareid, CBS National Correspondent. And like a fatherly professor reproving wayward journalism students, Sevareid offered some corrections: "The specter of American gunboat diplomacy, I would suggest, is a much...
...Rounders is an amiable knuckle-headed western about two lumpish modern cowpokes and their love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse. Howdy (Henry Fonda) and Ben (Glenn Ford) ride the range in a deplorable old Dodge pickup, fleeing the specter of steady jobs. While Fonda broods about the plump divorcee he loved and lost at a dude ranch, Ford dreams of escape to a desert isle "where there ain't no grass, ain't no horses." Then the bronc-busters' skill is challenged by a blaze-faced roan given to bucking, biting and occasional drunkenness...
...support of the state's leading clergymen, newspapers, politicians, law-enforcement officers and finally the voters, who killed the death penalty (gas chamber) by nearly 5 to 3 in a referendum last November. Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney George Van Hoomissen summed up Oregon's attitude: "The specter of an innocent man unjustly executed is constantly in my mind...
Creeping inflation is a specter. Last year Peru's cost of living edged up 11 % -still small by Latin American standards, but considerably higher than the 1963 rate. This year, Belaúnde's budget is set at $1.1 billion, 45% more than his budget in 1964. To help pay the freight, Belaúnde has raised import and mining taxes, tightened collections and cracked down on tax dodgers. The result has been a 60% jump in tax revenues. Yet his budget deficit is projected at $80 million this year-up 10% from 1964-and brings dour predictions...