Canada's Crack-Up
Muggeridge, John
John Muggeridge CANADA'S CRACK-UP Twenty y e a r s o f Trudeaumania may last f o r e v e r . There is no sadder victim of old age than a superannuated liberal. Monkey gland injections and...
...Benefits were taken away from some people, and some of those people were hurt...
...The most uncompromising civil libertarians don't even bother making excuses anymore for the practice of "imperative staffing," according to which a worker in line for promotion to a position that has been designated bilingual must be "bumped" by his junior colleague who happens to have a better ear for languages...
...Its wish was their command...
...I didn't feel like bringing up any case which would have caused Mr...
...Democrats have been bludgeoning the Reagan Administration with "'the fairness issue" since 1981...
...Not to worry...
...The President usually takes the line that the cuts in social programs affected only those who didn't need the benefits anyway...
...rather, thanks'to Wolfe's victory over Montcalm, it is British...
...on another, having been caught in the shower by visitors to his Ottawa office, he came out to meet them walking on his hands clad only in a thigh-length kimono...
...With Galbraith our constitution presupposes a beneficently intervening state...
...Remember that for most of the last sixteen years he has been federal prime minister, disposer, that is, of an obemaster of the Liberal caucus...
...Both groups continue to lobby Ottawa--although the "~h.r is clearly being won by "reproductive freedom...
...He even describes those who took part in the operation as "a well-organized group of revolutionaries...
...His introductory lecture came in the form of a press interview given in 1967 when he was appointed federal justice minister...
...None of Trudeau's predecessors can match his record for extensive and resolute dipping into the public treasury...
...Trudeau once said that the Harvard economist's thinking permeated his thought...
...All it took in Canada to win an Equal Rights Amendment was for the Ottawa-funded Status of Women Committee to spend a few summer afternoons in 1981 lobbying Liberal cabinet ministers...
...For Trudeau the world is a pluralistic society writ large...
...Never would it have occurred to Trudeau, the dyed-in-the-nylon secularist, that making divorce easier might actually encourage families to break up...
...We are his picture of Dorian Grey...
...We have pensions and security for our old age...
...For the Oxfordtrained Fabian socialists who had always--such is the curse of empire-occupied its inner circle, doors opened and horizons lightened...
...we could even have gone on swallowing the professional un-stuffed shirt who called reporters "you guys" as assiduously as lawyers address judges as "your honor...
...This is where the microphones come in...
...It is liberalism's P.A...
...It has to argue, for example, that when George Brown, a leading light among the aforementioned Presbyterians, wrote to his wife on the occasion of a confederation agreement having been finally hammered out, " I s n ' t it wonderful...
...But what we could no longer stomach was the liberal academic...
...The dam broke around 1960 when Catholic leftists triumphed in Quebec...
...This year he earned a bronze medal for fiscal high jumping...
...According to the well-known journalist, Peter C. Newman, for example, Trudeau's Cruise decision was only accidentally connected with resisting totalitarianism...
...In some ways, of course, this putting his youngest face forward has paid off...
...Lawrence...
...Then there is the over three decades' worth of Eastern-bloc love feasting to laugh off...
...Hence the facelift, the Mercedes 200SL and Margaret, and hence the giving of all those interviews on ski slopes or against the roar of jet engines...
...The truth is that conservative Canada had died twenty years earlier...
...French Canadianism entirely exting~Jished . . . . We have the power in ou t hands," he must have been speaking metaphorically...
...because he knew more than his pro- _9 fessors...
...First, however, linguistic equality had to be forced on them...
...Imagine how it would be if the rules of the Democratic party were constitutionally enforceable across the United States...
...Last May he ordered Cruise-Missile testing to proceed despite the prime-time apoplexy of peace groups...
...the argument that Trudeau's constitutional proposals did violence to Canada's political traditions was powerfully put, in particular by Stirling Lyon, who sacrificed his chance of being re-elected premier of Manitoba in order to lead the anti-Charter forces, but no one of any influence followed him...
...Trudeau into too much trouble...
...His new book, Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, was published last month by Basic Books...
...a minority of Englishspeakers live in Quebec...
...To see why, let us begin by ridding ourselves of a curious condescension that takes hold whenever my middleincome opponents talk about what the government is doing for low-income working people...
...Few world travelers have been filmed more often dancing into the small hours at fashionable night spots, or clambering over ruined temples in Thailand with their children...
...Nor could he ever have been brought 18 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 to admit that legalizing abortion might lessen respect for the sanctity of human life...
...My fellow Americans...
...Look at Pierre Trudeau...
...No wonder Bella Abzug bade such a fond farewell to Trudeau at his retirement party in June...
...Imagine four backto-back terms of Jimmy Carter as President, but even this analogy does not fully capture the leftist sweep of government under Trudeau...
...To oppose movin$ the framework of society ahead of the times is to side with the curtailment of intellectual and physical liberty...
...Feminists have spent fifty fruitless years trying to get such language inserted into the U.S...
...It asks us to believe that the born-again Presbyterians and French ultramontanists who were so largely responsible for creating modern Canada saw the new Dominion as an equal partnership between Protestant English Canada and Catholic Quebec...
...Charles Murray THE FAIRNESS DELUSION The speech o u r P r e s i d e n t s h o u l d make...
...Clark promised to privatize Petro-Canada, renegotiate the National Energy Agreement, defang the Foreign Investment Review Agency, rewrite the Income Tax Act in favor of householders, and restore power to the provinces...
...It is not to get rid of welfare cheats...
...In fact the more you treat it, the horrider its symptoms...
...their plight is no less grievous...
...My proposition is that in the last twenty years, we comfortable people, in the name of fairness and generosity, have ravaged their lives...
...You have Chosen the neighborhood where you THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 21...
...criticism of our meager defense performance...
...Thanks to Pearson having given Trudeau a leg up we got subsidized feminism and legalized abortion, also economic atrophy and a constitution that mandates government of the government, for the government, and by the government...
...Trudeau's trump card was money...
...As prime minister, moreover, he practiced what he preached...
...No, tonight I am not talking about the destitute...
...Galbraith...
...Trudeau's stature as a Keynesian economist is truly Olympian...
...When Trudeau was handed back power in 1980, he used it not just to enact laws that pushed Canadian society in a liberal direction, but to rewrite the Canadian constitution so that legislation having any other ideological tendency would be unpassable...
...When the choice is between steadfastness or weakness in the face of totalitarianism," he warned, "history should have taught us that to refuse to risk one's life in defense of liberty is to risk losing one's liberty without the guarantee of saving one's life...
...In fact if history has endowed us with a culture, it is neither English- nor French-Canadian...
...He must be the only statesman on either side of the Iron Curtain who still thinks these three capitals worth visiting on diplomatic missions...
...Thenceforth all it required to bilingualize us was to extend exponcentially the institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada...
...a friend of mine thinks nothing of giving the hay from his nine acres in the country to a local stables in return for their boarding his daughter's horse...
...Perhaps these are politically astute responses for an election year...
...They count up the extra income in food stamps or housing subsidies or the welfare check, and judge fairness in terms of increase in the dollar total--when it would not occur to them to measure their own lives in such terms...
...most are not...
...For twenty years he conducted one on government as a Catalyst for Social Change, and now we have decided to drop the course...
...Visitors who knew it as it once was shake their heads in disbelief at how quickly the Catholic presence there has receded...
...Canada is not bilingual...
...In other words, they are the kind of people that most of us had for parents' or grandparents or greatgrandparents, and to whom we owe much of our own present prosperity...
...We were judged the third most highly taxed nation in the Western world, behind Norway and Sweden...
...continue to spend large sums on the poor, it would be spending much less i f the Democrats had let it...
...And when during the same prime-ministerial junket, a reporter asked him whether he had interceded with Moscow on behalf of imprisoned Ukrainian dissidents, he retorted: "Anyone who breaks the law to assert his nationalism doesn't get much sympathy from me...
...What better curriculum vitae for the job of Liberal party spokesman from the new Quebec...
...What was required, as Trudeau's apparatchik, Jean-Luc Pepin, points out, was no less than a revolution...
...But it is in the area of domestic policy that Trudeau's outworn progressivism has borne its richest legislative harvest...
...In presenting Parliament with a divorce reform package he reminded his opponents that "we live in a pluralistic society" and that "even though some laws may be repugnant to the morals of individual members," their task was not to legislate private morality "but to seek solutions to evils which arise in a civil society...
...Between then and now our population has grown by about one-seventh...
...Garage sales and flea markets proliferate...
...His father's millions helped him to acquire the prestige of a European scholar and the glamour of a world traveler...
...An ever-expanding bureaucracy can therefore have no Orwellian overtones...
...But it is Trudeau's mental vigor that Gwyn and Radwanski find most impressive...
...Kosygin and Mr...
...Very well, then: Dispense with elections...
...dient majority in the House of Commons, which under our system of government is not only the highest legislative authority in the land, but, since we have given up being a colony of Britain, an unchallengeable one...
...I wish to speak to you of the plight of millions of other Americans who are less fortunate...
...The question is: Why didn't we resist...
...Someone else who, had he attended that festivity, might have been expected to shed a tear of gratitude is J.K...
...All it takes in parliamentary democracies such as ours is a change of government...
...Not only did the Liberal caucus at Ottawa now command a semi-permanent majority...
...There can be fewer more pious expressions of faith in demand-side economics than his 1959 speech to the Canadian Institute of Public Affairs in which he calls income equalization "the most obvious solution to the problem of guaranteeing that distributed purchasing power will transform itself completely into effective demand for produced goods," and urges governments "extensively and resolutely" to make "payments of all kinds...
...system...
...Priests who used to walk the streets of Montreal in cassocks suddenly put on jean suits...
...Yet as federal justice minister he brought forward legislation decriminalizing abortions carried out in accredited hospitals on the advice of properly constituted hospital committees, an arrangement which, he told the House of Commons in December 1967, "reflects the needs and morals of our times...
...I hereby offer the Administration, free and clear, the speech I think Ronald Reagan ought to be making about "'the fairness issue'" and a few of the numbers behind the rhetoric...
...It enshrines the principle that Ottawa knows best, and in particular it knows best how to manage the economy...
...Alas, two sycophantic biographers do not a popular following make...
...I could talk about them...
...Justice, in other words, necessitates socio-economic restructuring...
...We are going to have to live with it for many years yet...
...now, witness all those clerics, frocked or otherwise, included in Ren~ Levesque's first left-wing separatist cabinet, the Church had become government...
...It is also an antidote to bigotry...
...For most o f the twentieth century these seventy or so impenetrably conservative Canadians had managed not only to keep their party in power, but to prevent it from adopting left-wing social policies...
...In Canada Trudeau is no neutralist Don Quixote...
...But tonight I refer instead to another population that has been strangely ignored: millions of ordinary American parents who work steadily and work hard but, because of little education or because o f ' o t h e r disadvantages or simply because their abilities are limited, work at menial, low-paying jobs...
...in fact few Canadian politicians have more forthrightly asserted the humanity of the unborn...
...But, astute or not, they do not ring true...
...Bureaucratic bilingualism is as fixed a part of the Canadian scene as blackfly in early summer...
...For those who have been raising the clamor, citing specifics has often seemed unnecessary...
...His two most respected biographers, Richard Gwyn and George Radwanski, for example, write glowing paragraphs about the trimness and muscularity of his body, and both make solemn reference to "Exhaustion and Fulfillment: The Ascetic in the John Muggeridge teaches history at Niagara College in Welland, Ontario...
...That's what happens when people at almost any level of income suddenly have less income...
...he provides, according to the same source, " a role model of intellectual excellence that many thousands of Canadians have attempted, perhaps unconsciously, to emulate...
...the truly needy were not hurt...
...The wider its scope, the more effectively will ignorance and reaction have been combated...
...For someone in Trudeau's political tradition, ol r statism comes naturally...
...Why be so disingenuous...
...Some of my older colleagues disapproved, in fact the majority did not want to go ahead with the Code...
...The real reason is thai the reforms of the 1960s and thereafter have been bad for the people who most deserve our consideration...
...And while the Reagan Administration surely does Charles Murray is a senior research fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research...
...The rest is history...
...And so is commitment to institutionalized equality for the whole leftist grab bag of "oppressed" minorities...
...If anything, in fact, the mood of voters in 1980, when he last appealed to them, was a conservative one...
...News clips from Prague showed solemn-faced functionaries leading him 'round museums with his son Justin while whoever was in charge of his case no doubt phoned Moscow to find out what on earth one did with Canadian olive branches...
...For Trudeau, where one stands on abortion is a moral and therefore a private matter...
...That at least is what the Charter implies...
...One of Trudeau's very first prime ministerial moves was to gain parliamentary approval for the Official Languages Act, which declares in defiance of sociology and history that French and English "possess and enjoy equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all the institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada...
...Not that Trudeau has never defended the West...
...sixty...
...And never were Ottawa's microphones turned up higher than during Trudeau's campaign to win acceptance for bilingualism...
...No one has adequately documented what happened in that province during the late fifties...
...We were making the civil service, kicking and screaming all the time, bilingual...
...The same is true at the international level...
...These are people who are never going to be rich...
...a (declining) minority of French-speakers, outside that province...
...also it requires federal policy-makers to abide by the "principle of making equalization payments to ensure that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at comparable levels of taxation...
...tradesmen offer discounts if you pay for their services in cash...
...But Trudeau believes in deficits...
...postsecondary schooling for all who want it...
...We still have a private sector, but more and more of it keeps slipping underground...
...We have the resources to raise and educate our children...
...And with Joe Clark's Progressive Conservatives coming to power in 1979, that is precisely what we got...
...One clue as to how safe a citizen's worldly goods are going to be from government despoilers is the fact that Trudeau rejected a Conservative request that property rights be entrenched in the Charter...
...In his Paris student days he had become a disciple of the Personalist philosopher and editor, Emmanuel Mounier, and on recrossing the Atlantic, he simply transferred Mounier's struggle against P~tainist reactionaries to a Quebec setting...
...Tonight, I wish to speak to that great multitude of Americans, of whom I am one, who are comfortable...
...Hence the curiously lopsided way m which Canada's welfare state has developed...
...at long last it was ideologically undivided...
...Why was it that Joe Clark, whose initial response was in favor of Lyon, caved in as soon as Trudeau agreed to let the Supreme Court rule on the legality of his government's actions, when Clark knew, as we all did, that that judicial body had been packed with proLiberal judges and that in any case the task of finding precedents either for or against institutionalizing revolution was an impossible one...
...he likes public spending, and the more out of control the better...
...These tendencies, of course, are discernible everywhere...
...Constitution...
...Neutralists are of necessity fellow travelers...
...It is not to benefit the middle class that pays the bills...
...the other provinces, English...
...So it was that Lester Pearson, Trudeau's immediate predecessor as federal prime minister, and one of the above-mentioned Liberals who had returned from post-graduate studies in Britain with a leftish accent, hit on him for the job of justice minister and criminal law modernizer...
...We claim to be a nation of loyalists...
...But what should be included under "essential services of reasonable quality"--universal daycare...
...threats to their identity "from the cultural, economic and even military point of view...
...But I insisted, and besides, I had a Minister of Justice who was interested in it...
...This is the effect of the Canada Act, 1982...
...Canoe," a 1944 essay in which the future prime minister asserts that to enter the Canadian wilderness equipped with canoe, paddle, blanket, knife, fishing rod, rifle, salt pork, and flour is to "entrust yourself, stripped of all worldly goods, to nature...
...But I knew he could handle it all right, it had to be done by a Catholic if at all possible...
...The implication here is that laws are incapable of both reflecting traditional morality and solving the evils that arise in a civil society...
...Legislating a framework for our evolving way of life is just another way of moving its center leftwards...
...For the first time in history they had nothing to fear from bishops...
...Even Trudeau, according to Gwyn, was convinced that the electorate had turned against interventionist government for years to come...
...Catholic Quebec's loss was the Liberal party's g~in...
...We were the first in North America to get old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and family allowances, yet no other jurisdiction on the continent has more lately liberalized divorce laws or legalized the sale of contraceptives...
...I am not talking about the chronically unemployed...
...Why not...
...Trudeau never received a clear mandate to turn this country into a liberal theocracy...
...He equates the business of government with that of spreading enlightenment...
...For Gwyn, Trudeau is _ 9 "without intellectual equal among Canadian politicians today [1980] or in the past, and there are few in the world who can challenge him...
...The most valiant fiscal watchdogs have stopped asking questions about the billions of dollars expended, bilingual bonuses, and French courses for civil servants who woke up one morning in the early seventies to find a language requirement tacked on to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 19 their job descriptions...
...Once the Church had put pressure on government...
...is Trudeau's unrelenting progressivism, of course, with which Canadians are so disenchanted...
...Trudeau himself once likened the business of government to "having a seminar all the time--with Parliament, with the caucus, with the country, with the student, with wfiomever you are meeting...
...Trudeau was rich, French Canadian, Catholic, and progressive...
...So it has invented the myth of Anglo-French duality...
...He who bathes in the fountain of eternal progressivism simply highlights his decrepitude...
...twenty years later he told an audience in Kiev that Canadians were befriending the USSR as a way of countering U.S...
...Brezhnev to say, 'why should you put your revolutionaries in jail, and we not put ours?' " Finally came last year's Einstein Prize-winning peace initiative...
...But the Trudeauization of Canada was still not complete...
...Some of us are rich...
...This brings us back to Trudeau who was a key figure among Quebec's newly powerful Catholic leftists...
...Why do conservatives shy away from making the honest, compelling argument so readily available to them that the social policy toward the poor that Reagan inherited (and has changed very little) has been desperately unfair and destructive for the poor...
...The kicking and screaming is over now...
...20 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 "Well," recalled Pearson in that delightfully informal manner of his, " I put him in the Department of Justice as soon as I c o u l d . . , and told him to go ahead with the Criminal Code...
...We must, he insisted, "move the framework of society slightly ahead of our times so there is no curtailment of intellectual or physical liberty...
...he had even appeared in the Canadian Forum, English Canada's most prestigious left-wing magazine...
...As the Liberal caucus went, so went the country, and from March 1968 to March 1984 Trudeau was undisputed Imagine four back-to-back terms of Jimmy Carter as President, but even this analogy does not fully capture the leftist sweep of government under Trudeau...
...You worry about crime...
...We no longer have any relish for his particular Never-Never Land, a fact that became embarrassingly evident when, a week after he had announced his resignation as leader of the federal Liberals, they registered a sharper jump in popularity than has any political party in the history of Canadian poll-taking...
...They had to be...
...Nor has he ever displayed the slightest diffidence about exercising this untrammelled authority...
...Nor are we bicultural...
...On at least one occasion he hurried away from a North-South Dialogue to put on an aqualung before talking to reporters...
...As far as words can make it, our economy is now supplyside proof...
...Progress is freedom...
...Once they had ordered their students to-stay away from Ernest Hemingway...
...In Canada, however, they may be constitutionally irreversible...
...The number of legal abortions continues to increase, as does belief in the legality of abortion...
...And what is "a reasonably comparable level of taxation"--thiny percent of take-home pay...
...But their instinct is to keep working, raise their children right, and hope their children have a better life...
...nor can he expect relief from sports cars or younger wives...
...The Charter obliges governments to dig into the nation's pocketbooks, but never specifies how deeply...
...How can this be, when the last twenty years have seen an explosion in spending on behalf of such people...
...This is the Official Sexes Act...
...But Catholicism hasn't disappeared so much as changed sides...
...But liberalism hates the idea of winners and losers...
...Ideological senescence is incurable...
...In 1969, Trudeau's first full year in power, Ottawa promised to spend $11.6 billion and expected a surplus of $250 million...
...The promise of legal equality for all Canadians contained in Article 15 "does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups," while Article 28 declares that "Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons...
...Meanwhile Parliament is certain to approve his plan for a publicly funded peace research institute...
...Why be so defensive...
...If world Communism really is out to bury us, then the moment has passed for evenhandedness...
...He Urged us to regard his new office not just as the government's top legal adviser, but as " a department planning for the society of tomorr o w . . , c o m b i n i n g . . , the function of drafting new legislation with the discipline of sociology and economics, so that it can provide a framework for our evolving way of life...
...Canada's may be the world's first constitution to entrench the right to affirmative action...
...Great stuff, but how can we be sure it was not meant hypothetically...
...Trudeau's Catholic leftism imported from France may not have worn well...
...For a moment it really did look as if Canadian conservatisrn's hour had struck...
...But what we share in common is enough money to live more o r less where we wish, in a style that is pleasant by any standard and luxurious by most...
...Every fair-minded person should be able to see, we are given to believe, that the Administration has been palpably, obviously "'unfair...
...They also helped to finance the setting up of Cit~Libre, Iris North American equivalent of Mounier's "Esprit, in whose pages French Canadians first discovered that they were being kept in the Dark Ages by Clericals and Fascists...
...they point to an auditor general's report of a few years back which warned that public spending is now out of control...
...A better gauge of Trudeau's commitment to the Western alliance is the fact that under his leadership our contribution to NATO shrank by half...
...They have gone about as far as they can go...
...abortion on demand...
...In The True North Not Strong and Free, a devastating expose of Canada's military unpreparedness, Newman argues that Ottawa agreed to the testing program simply in order to defuse U.S...
...so is the boulevardier with a rose in his lapel and an eye for the pretty girls...
...Some critics maintain, for example, that he ignored our burgeoning deficit...
...During the crucial Liberal leadership campaign in 1968 when the Youth Vote loomed so large, he managed to fool us into believing that he was 47, not 49, and even now that he is past 66, we still think of him as the Canadian most likely to holiday north of the Arctic Circle...
...forty...
...In fact, of course, putting the Cold War into perspective means rejecting the rationale behind it...
...Quebec was reactionary no longer...
...For nearly twenty years now he has been putting himself across as a postgraduate Peter Pan, the young adult who never grew staid...
...Trudeau should not be surprised...
...Article 36 commits them to "promoting equal opportunities for the well-being of all Canadians . . . furthering economic development to reduce .disparity of opp o r t u n i t i e s . . , and providing essential services of reasonable quality to all Canadians...
...Quebec speaks French...
...Its centerpiece, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, puts the Official Languages Act beyond the power of Parliament to amend...
...The fairness issue covers a variety of sins, generally falling under the headings of rewarding the rich and cutting programs for the poor...
...Henceforth commitment to institutionalized bilingualism is on a par with loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen, part of what it means to be truly Canadian...
...He himself happens to believe that abortion is a form of killing...
...I have listened to other Republican officials point proudly to how much money the government continues to spend, arguing that the Reagan Administration is spending unacknowledged and unappreciated billions to help the poor, even more than the Democrats spent...
...Both accept at face value Trudeau's own account of himself as a self-made genius who could afford to cut graduate classes at the Sorbonne Most Canadians are now immune to the fairy dust that our Maple Leaf Peter Pan has for so long been sprinkling us with...
...now they prescribed D.H...
...In 1951, along with representatives of the Canadian Communist party, Trudeau attended an "International" Economic Conference in Moscow sponsored by the Soviet-controlled World Federation of Trade Unions...
...Tonight, think for a moment how differently "fairness" for the poor looks if you ask yourself what most worries you as a parent, and then make one assumption: The poor are not so different from you and me...
...I could have dropped it, put it off, because I did not want to get Mr...
...Youthful flamboyance is his media trademark...
...Its rallying point had been Catholic Quebec, whose representatives for historical reasons sit on the Liberal side in the federal parliament...
...We held the key posts," he told a recent interviewer...
...It now permeates the official thinking of Canada...
...governments that pursue a foreign policy centered on winning the Cold War are simply pandering to prejudice...
...The people in charge of making the Administration "s case have never quite made up their minds how to respond to these allegations...
...Monkey gland injections and plastic surgery can do nothing for him...
...last February's federal budget called for an overall outlay of $97 billion and an estimated deficit of $31.5 billion...
...Trudeau took it to Washington, London, Paris, Peking, and Moscow, but also, believe it or not, to Prague, East Berlin, and Bucharest...
...But sarcasm may be out of place...
...Laws can after all be changed and key posts restaffed...
...The reason such policies must be reformed is not that there is a budget crisis...
...The soulful outdoorsman spouting Teilhardian claptrap about the universe unfolding as it shoiJld is harmless enough...
...What it did not reflect was either the demands of feminists for "reproductive freedom" or those of antiabortionists for an end to authorized blood-letting...
...The image of the dilettante in power is way off base...
...Both federal opposition parties endorse his peace initiative...
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