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Tsongas likes to quote ex-Reagan opponent and current Vice President George Bush on the wisdom of across-the-board tax slashing--"It's voodoo economics." He adds that the witch doctor-in-chief at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. will eventually be haunted by his do-all potions. Tsongas predicts that the Republicans will not realize that they have overshot the public's call for economic responsibility until it is too late, and "we have decontrol and deregulation and all these cuts, and the average American gets his heating bill, and it's gone up double, and then he remembers that...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saving the World Without Easy Answers | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

Their government is to be a rule of one tribe for the sole benefit of its own people -the whites. The now familiar witch hunts begin: discrimination, forced removal of blacks to "homelands," detentions without trial and "racial classification" tests. What should be a period of progress becomes a harvest of sorrow and cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black and White | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...Sternlofs Timberridge Institute in 1979, Patton asked a grand jury to investigate. A juror told TIME: "They said Barkouras was the Jim Jones of the Oklahoma City jet set. I never really knew what they were trying to get him on. Our grand jury was on a kind of witch hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kind of Witch Hunt: Seamy scandal in Oklahoma City | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...effort to stop the "witch hunt," Barkouras last February told the Rev. Gene Garrison, a Baptist minister and close friend of Boren's, that he was prepared to expose Delaporte and Boren as homosexuals. In Boren's case, it was an old charge-and one that he denied during his Senate campaign by publicly swearing, on a white-bound Bible, that he was heterosexual. Barkouras took no further action, but a few weeks later Jack Anthony, 28, an heir to an Oklahoma department-store fortune and a student of Barkouras', was arrested at 4 a.m. while changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kind of Witch Hunt: Seamy scandal in Oklahoma City | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...close." Admits a candid Landers: "If anyone had written to me with the problem, I would have said 'Forgive and forget.' " Despite the rift, both columnists flourished, piling up readers on five continents, giving opinions on everything from Thai singles bars to the efficacy of witch doctors. "It could be that the medicine man really did help you," Landers advised one South African correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Advice for the Lonely Hearts | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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