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Evans and Novak report that, Fritz Mondale excepted, members of the Administration were elated by the Abzug firing. Even some members of the Women’s Advisory Committee have called the White House to say they resigned only because of pressure from Big Feminism, and to tender their services for a later date when all the noise dies down. Though Mr. Carter has merely done belatedly what the voters of New York have been doing consistently, Bella has been on tour with a kind of female impersonation act to characterize his action as caddish. As for the President, the dope is that he did it because he wanted to appear Strong, as a President must. (True, he did consult Mrs. Carter first). And what the heck, why shouldn’t he be able to do to Bella Abzug what he did to Taiwan?

When not rallying in defense of furbish louseworts, snail darters, pussy willows, or crabgrass, the eco-lobby could often be found rallying against supersonic transport aircraft. The SST, the eco-lobby had it, would dangerously deplete the ozone—a layer of oxygen present in the atmosphere which shields the earth from ultraviolet ra-Thomas Jefferson the slaveowner. Martin Luther King had a vision, devoted his life to it, was a man of rhetorical genius, and argued for a kind of consummation of the Civil War. Let us forget the rough edges, and recognize a great black American.

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Evans and Novak report that, Fritz Mondale excepted, members of the Administration were elated by the Abzug firing. Even some members of the Women’s Advisory Committee have called the White House to say they resigned only because of pressure from Big Feminism, and to tender their services for a later date when all the noise dies down. Though Mr. Carter has merely done belatedly what the voters of New York have been doing consistently, Bella has been on tour with a kind of female impersonation act to characterize his action as caddish. As for the President, the dope is that he did it because he wanted to appear Strong, as a President must. (True, he did consult Mrs. Carter first). And what the heck, why shouldn’t he be able to do to Bella Abzug what he did to Taiwan?

When not rallying in defense of furbish louseworts, snail darters, pussy willows, or crabgrass, the eco-lobby could often be found rallying against supersonic transport aircraft. The SST, the eco-lobby had it, would dangerously deplete the ozone—a layer of oxygen present in the atmosphere which shields the earth from ultraviolet ra-Thomas Jefferson the slaveowner. Martin Luther King had a vision, devoted his life to it, was a man of rhetorical genius, and argued for a kind of consummation of the Civil War. Let us forget the rough edges, and recognize a great black American.