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...Crimson's election editorials over the decades have sometimes enthusiastically endorsed favorite candidates. Sometimes lamented the choice thrown at voters by the American electoral process. Following is a compilation of excerpts from editorials over the years, many of which speak as much to the dilemmas of today as to those of yesterday...
...feminist forces wonder about the Phyllis Schlafly women-will-be-thrown-out-in-the-streets mentality, they can only shake their heads at Reagan supporters. "If the Republican party supports equal rights," Anne Wexler, a special assistant to Carter, asks, "why isn't it in their platform?" Incredulity is mixed with general fear; they know that anti-ERA support and the Right to Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic...
...market could be thrown into a panic if Saudi Arabia were sucked into the war or if tanker traffic were interrupted through the Strait of Hormuz at the southern end of the Persian Gulf. That 36-mile-wide channel has been the lifeline for some 40% of the non-Communist world's total supply. Experts fear that the price of oil could soar beyond $100 per bbl., triple the current price, if the war were to widen or the strait were to be closed...
...People were fighting for a chance to dig out the survivors," said a Danish journalist. As more help arrived from 30 countries, bringing some $1.5 million worth of aid and equipment, rescuers were often at cross-purposes. Swiss and French avalanche dogs, trained to sniff out buried bodies, were thrown off the scent by powerful disinfectants that were sprayed on buildings to keep decaying bodies from spreading disease. French microphonic devices, flown in to monitor buildings for faint sounds of breathing, were useless in the din of bulldozers...
...each match. One anonymous woman from Quincy House recalls a co-ed football game earlier this year: "Of the three women on our team, not once did any of us get to throw the ball, carry the ball, or catch a pass. Not one of us was even thrown a pass." The reluctance to involve women on each play may be understandable in light of their lack of experience, but it is certainly not justifiable, and misses the whole point of co-ed sports...