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Some timely second thoughts. Remember the hullabaloo about the Willie Horton commercials. Now Democratic political strategist and pollster Pat Caddell says that prison-furlough program “was indefensible. It was wrong, and that should have been stated.” . . . Washington Post editorial-page editor Meg Greenfield agrees. Over the years, she says, liberals have equated law-and-order with covert racism: “Many Democrats seem unwilling or unable to think about violent crime as a matter of public policy.” . . . On the lopsided black vote, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young “thinks it wouldn’t be bad if some blacks became Republicans. It’s not good for all blacks to be in the same party.” Young, who plans to run for governor of Georgia, believes one of the parties will nominate a black to be President or Vice President in his lifetime. . . . The ACLU, struck by George Bush’s criticisms of its super-liberal stands, is quietly reviewing positions it has taken, and will scrub some, including its opposition to airport passenger security checks. . . . Democratic Gov. Rudy Perpich (Minn.) knows he’ll get into trouble for saying it, but he’d like to see Federal Government get out of education and leave it to states. “I believe it would work,” he says, “if they would take over the human services and let us have the education.” . . Everyone is talking about Jack Kemp at HUD. One sponsor from an unexpected quarter is columnist Richard Cohen, who describes himself as an “out-of-the-mainstream liberal.” Kemp, he says, “is the rarest of Republicans—one who recognizes there’s a world beyond the 18th hole. [He’s] committed to improving the plight of the urban poor.” ‘ . . A Richard Wirthlin White House survey shows that only 8 per cent of Americans fear the prospect of a nuclear war or armed conflict with the Soviet Union today, which leads Washington Post reporter Lou Cannon to comment:

“This amazing finding suggests that public perception at the end of the second term of the most anti-Communist President in U.S. history may be more favorable to U.S.-Soviet cooperation and arms control than at any time since World War II.”

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Some timely second thoughts. Remember the hullabaloo about the Willie Horton commercials. Now Democratic political strategist and pollster Pat Caddell says that prison-furlough program “was indefensible. It was wrong, and that should have been stated.” . . . Washington Post editorial-page editor Meg Greenfield agrees. Over the years, she says, liberals have equated law-and-order with covert racism: “Many Democrats seem unwilling or unable to think about violent crime as a matter of public policy.” . . . On the lopsided black vote, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young “thinks it wouldn’t be bad if some blacks became Republicans. It’s not good for all blacks to be in the same party.” Young, who plans to run for governor of Georgia, believes one of the parties will nominate a black to be President or Vice President in his lifetime. . . . The ACLU, struck by George Bush’s criticisms of its super-liberal stands, is quietly reviewing positions it has taken, and will scrub some, including its opposition to airport passenger security checks. . . . Democratic Gov. Rudy Perpich (Minn.) knows he’ll get into trouble for saying it, but he’d like to see Federal Government get out of education and leave it to states. “I believe it would work,” he says, “if they would take over the human services and let us have the education.” . . Everyone is talking about Jack Kemp at HUD. One sponsor from an unexpected quarter is columnist Richard Cohen, who describes himself as an “out-of-the-mainstream liberal.” Kemp, he says, “is the rarest of Republicans—one who recognizes there’s a world beyond the 18th hole. [He’s] committed to improving the plight of the urban poor.” ‘ . . A Richard Wirthlin White House survey shows that only 8 per cent of Americans fear the prospect of a nuclear war or armed conflict with the Soviet Union today, which leads Washington Post reporter Lou Cannon to comment:

“This amazing finding suggests that public perception at the end of the second term of the most anti-Communist President in U.S. history may be more favorable to U.S.-Soviet cooperation and arms control than at any time since World War II.”