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...this delights "Gen" Blatt, who currently holds elective office as Pennsylvania's state secretary of internal affairs. She seems to be running more against Goldwater than against Scott. She has been particularly effective in tarring Goldwater with a trigger-happy nuclear image. Noting that she has never married and is therefore childless, she says of Goldwater: "I don't want to trust the safety of my nieces and nephews or your sons and daughters and husbands to a man like that...
...Most of the jests in the book are not too funny. For instance, a "Right-Wing Palmistry Chart" contains an "itchy trigger finger" and a "party line." Instructions for "the extremist dance" include "take one step to the Right" and "swing over to the Left." Yok. A list of "known extremist groups" intersperses organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Muslims with thigh-slappers like the Mickey Mouse Club and Peter, Paul and Mary...
...talked about the campaign. Then they moved on into a rambling discussion of presidential power, the dangers of centralized government, foreign policy and NATO. Toward the end, Barry mentioned his No. 1 political headache. What did Ike think about charges that Barry and Running Mate Bill Miller are trigger-happy warmongers? "Well, Barry." said Ike, "in my mind this is actual tommyrot. Now, you know about war, you've been through one. I'm older than you, I've been in more. But, I tell you, no man that knows anything about war is going...
Were the Navy's shots in the dark justified, or were they merely a trigger-happy reaction by nervous skippers? On the basis of the existing evidence, the Pentagon is unsure. Last week the Navy sent a special investigating team to the Far East in hope of turning up better answers...
...observers for, as one diplomat put it, Banda's "are the most realistic, sensible and encouragingly pro-Western policies in Africa today." Banda stood firm against recognizing Red China, even though Peking is reported ready to extend credits of up to $50 million in return for recognition. Another trigger of the revolt was Banda's negotiation of a trade pact with Portugal, whose policies in Angola and Mozambique are anathema to African nationalists...