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Add to the running debate over whether Jimmy Carter really means what Andy Young has been saying, this datum from last November’s Carter Playboy interview. Q. “Aren’t there any examples of things you did that weren’t absolutely right?” A. “There are a lot of those in my life. . . . It might be that now I should drop my campaign for President and start a crusade for black majority rule for South Africa and Rhodesia.” . . . In Washington, the recent Scotty Reston column sharply criticizing Young is taken to mean that Young is persona non grata with the professional foreign service. . . . Two-thirds of the American people, according to a recent Harris poll, think that Andy Young “talks too much”; 48 per cent think he has made too many statements that offend other countries. . . . Christian Science Monitor concludes, after surveying middle class sentiment in the Midwest, that Carter’s support is soft there; that middle class people tend to think Carter’s energy program taxes are intended to “soak them” in favor of the poor. . . . U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that Carter’s energy program (minus the standby gasoline tax, which is unlikely to be enacted) will cost American taxpayers $200 billion in the next decade.

The campaigns against nuclear arms and nuclear plants are going into high gear. The Task Force for a Nuclear Test Ban (see article p. 770)—that old gang of theirs, Norman Cousins, Sanford Gottlieb, George McGovern, Arthur Larson, Bella Abzug, Allard Lowenstein—has petitioned Carter to “declare that the United States will cease all further nuclear testing . . . as long as the Soviet Union exercises similar restraint.” . . . Ralph Nader has collected over half a million signatures urging Congress to ban the licensing of all new nuclear power plants. . . . On the far Left: the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee has called for the abolition of the FBI as an agency “too thoroughly saturated with the corruption of power to permit adequate cleansing.” . . . And the astonished, staid New York Radio City Music Hall found itself picketed, at the opening of the movie MacArthur, by some regulars— the U.S. Out of Korea Committee of Youth against War and Fascism, the Union of Democratic Thais, the Union of Democratic Filipinos, and, if you please—the Higher Ground Cinema. . . . Blossoming in New York’s West Village, Anita Bryant posters: Wanted for Crimes against Humanity.

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Add to the running debate over whether Jimmy Carter really means what Andy Young has been saying, this datum from last November’s Carter Playboy interview. Q. “Aren’t there any examples of things you did that weren’t absolutely right?” A. “There are a lot of those in my life. . . . It might be that now I should drop my campaign for President and start a crusade for black majority rule for South Africa and Rhodesia.” . . . In Washington, the recent Scotty Reston column sharply criticizing Young is taken to mean that Young is persona non grata with the professional foreign service. . . . Two-thirds of the American people, according to a recent Harris poll, think that Andy Young “talks too much”; 48 per cent think he has made too many statements that offend other countries. . . . Christian Science Monitor concludes, after surveying middle class sentiment in the Midwest, that Carter’s support is soft there; that middle class people tend to think Carter’s energy program taxes are intended to “soak them” in favor of the poor. . . . U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that Carter’s energy program (minus the standby gasoline tax, which is unlikely to be enacted) will cost American taxpayers $200 billion in the next decade.

The campaigns against nuclear arms and nuclear plants are going into high gear. The Task Force for a Nuclear Test Ban (see article p. 770)—that old gang of theirs, Norman Cousins, Sanford Gottlieb, George McGovern, Arthur Larson, Bella Abzug, Allard Lowenstein—has petitioned Carter to “declare that the United States will cease all further nuclear testing . . . as long as the Soviet Union exercises similar restraint.” . . . Ralph Nader has collected over half a million signatures urging Congress to ban the licensing of all new nuclear power plants. . . . On the far Left: the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee has called for the abolition of the FBI as an agency “too thoroughly saturated with the corruption of power to permit adequate cleansing.” . . . And the astonished, staid New York Radio City Music Hall found itself picketed, at the opening of the movie MacArthur, by some regulars— the U.S. Out of Korea Committee of Youth against War and Fascism, the Union of Democratic Thais, the Union of Democratic Filipinos, and, if you please—the Higher Ground Cinema. . . . Blossoming in New York’s West Village, Anita Bryant posters: Wanted for Crimes against Humanity.