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Dear Editor Political Experiments Reading Brian L. Zimbler's piece on the French election ("Mitterand's Deceptive Mandate," NL, July 13), I was struck by certain similarities to the current...
...Chicago Charles Majtland Benn Norman Gelb tells us that it "would be a mistake to view [Anthony Wedgwoodl Benn as a wild-eyed, uncontrollable fanatic," a la his more extreme critics ("Gambling With British Labor's Future," NL, July 13...
...Such programs are vital if blacks are to enter the economic mainstream in this country...
...As evidence for this extraordinary statement, Gelb cites his personal experience with Benn, marveling at the Red Peer's ability to gauge the length of his remarks for a radio interview almost down to the word...
...Adolf Hitler, for example, was a master with a radio microphone and no slouch when it came to newsreel cameras either...
...The French now have the opportunity to test modern Socialist ideas in a relatively untrammeled way, and the results of their effort will have a great effect on the future of world socialism in general...
...It is true that Ronald Reagan triumphed because the lackluster performance of Jimmy Carter's Administration produced a groundswell against him...
...Houston, Tex...
...Jesse E. Gloster Perelman Perhaps S.J...
...I happen to think that the neoconservatives are pushing Brand X and will fail, but the Socialists' future is also fraught with difficulties, as Zimbler points out...
...Similar talent in Benn does not absolve him from the charge of being a fanatic...
...The critical problems we face cannot be met so long as we cling to an anachronistic protectionism...
...I, too, am critical of the black leadership for failing to come up with a program of their own while belaboring the dangers of Reagan's policies...
...The sooner we all recognize this, the better off our country will be...
...Providence...
...In our system, it is only in the military that the educational level of blacks on the whole is considered higher than whites...
...1 want to emphasize that racism, the primary handicap facing blacks, would remain...
...neo-conservatives now have the chance to test their notions...
...The double experiment will be interesting to watch...
...It may also be true that inflation was the single most significant cause of Carter's defeat...
...But it is not true that the black people's difficulties would be resolved if inflation were brought under control...
...The legal rights of black men and women have been spelled out in the Constitution, Brown vs...
...But in accurately noting the limited nature of El Sid's creative gifts, Davis seems to be blaming the man for not being who he wasn't...
...Dear Editor Political Experiments Reading Brian L. Zimbler's piece on the French election ("Mitterand's Deceptive Mandate," NL, July 13), I was struck by certain similarities to the current situation in America...
...almost any good Republican could have beaten the former President...
...Perelman did lose his ability to take life as more than a joke, as Hope Hale Davis suggests in her interesting discussion of The Last Laugh ("The Sad Side of S.J...
...William Dodd...
...Surely someone as experienced at dealing with the media as Benn would have plenty of savvy about such matters...
...At the same time, here in the U.S...
...But the studied prejudices depriving them of real economic benefits continue...
...For our country to survive, we must find a solution to racial resentment, as well as to inflation and unemployment...
...the Board of Education, the Weber decision, and the multitude of Civil Rights laws passed over the last 100 years...
...Weintraub should have stressed the need for further implementation of Affirmative Action, of the Labor Department's Contract Compliance and Equal Opportunity provisions, and of on-1he-job-training (i.e., getting craft unions in this country to stop making it difficult for black youths to acquire journeyman skills...
...Perelman," NL, July 27...
...To achieve that goal government, business and industry, the press, educators, and labor must overcome the "special interest syndrome" and work together...
...New York City Paul Rogers Racism and Inflation Sidney Weintraub's article identifying inflation as the basic problem currently underlying black-white relations in this country ("Why Blacks Aren't Reading Reagan Right," NL, June 29) strikes me as only partially correct...
...This is supported by the paradoxical fact that in our supposedly democratic, free-enterprise society a hugely disproportionate percentage of those enlisting in the Armed Forces are black...
Vol. 64 • October 1981 • No. 16
