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□ Inasmuch as the U.S. depends on South Africa for several strategic minerals otherwise available only from the USSR, why is it trying to appease us? Why doesn’t it (say) denounce our crime in the streets, our barbarous abortion laws, and our bungled foreign policy that leaves half of Europe enslaved, and threaten us with sanctions unless we reform?

□ The clash of views between the Reverend Jerry Falwell and Bishop Desmond Tutu (described by Falwell as “a phony”) causes us to wonder: How come Tony Lewis and the boys haven’t been condemning Tutu for mixing politics and religion, the way they’ve condemned Falwell?

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William F. Buckley Jr.

□ Inasmuch as the U.S. depends on South Africa for several strategic minerals otherwise available only from the USSR, why is it trying to appease us? Why doesn’t it (say) denounce our crime in the streets, our barbarous abortion laws, and our bungled foreign policy that leaves half of Europe enslaved, and threaten us with sanctions unless we reform?

□ The clash of views between the Reverend Jerry Falwell and Bishop Desmond Tutu (described by Falwell as “a phony”) causes us to wonder: How come Tony Lewis and the boys haven’t been condemning Tutu for mixing politics and religion, the way they’ve condemned Falwell?