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-Adam Meyerson,

Atoms for Peace: Truman Was Right To Drop the Bomb" (Summer 1985)

D'Souza on Bishops

Interviews with these bishops suggest that they know little or nothing about the ideas and proposals to which they are putting their signature and lending their religious authority. The bishops are unfamiliar with existing defense and economic programs, unable to identify even in general terms the Soviet military capability, ignorant of roughly how much of the budget currently goes to defense, unclear about how much should be reallocated to social programs, and innocent of the most basic concepts underlying the intelligent layman's discussion of these questions.

-Dinesh D'Souza

"The Bishops as Pawns" (Fall 1985)

Du Pont on Protectionism

Imports do not cost jobs; they are a reflection of the relative strength of the American economy. We are growing faster than the rest of the world because we cut taxes in 1981 and because we began to deregulate our economy. Continued job creation requires that we continue on this path.

-Pete du Pont,

"The Kamikaze Economics of Protectionism" (Fall 1985)

Savimbi on Freedom Fighting

We ask also for your political and diplomatic support. We need you to insist at the United Nations and other international forums that the Cubans and Soviets leave Angola and that the promised elections be held. With your military and political support, other nations will follow your lead and give us aid. Do not underestimate the importance of your decision. For Angola is the Munich of Africa. Hesitation, the refusal to aid UNITA in its fight against the Cubans and Soviets, will be taken as a signal by all the countries in the region that the United States has abandoned them to the Soviets as the West abandoned Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe to Hitler in 1938. Do not suppose that Zaire, Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia will remain of the West when faced with an unopposed base in Angola. They will be forced to make their political accommodations with the Soviets just as most of Eastern Europe fell under Nazi political domination without a shot being fired. The loss of the sea route around the Cape and the loss of the strategic minerals found in central and southern Africa would be a crippling blow to the economy and defense of the West. That is why I say that UNITA is the key to Angola, Angola is the key to Africa, and Africa is the key to the West. -Jonas Savimbi,

"The War Against Soviet Colonialism" (Winter 1986)

Zinsmeister on Day Care

The deepest problems with paid child-rearing is that someone is being asked to do for money what very few of us are able to do for any reason other than love. Competent and safe baby-sitting, that is not so hard to hire. What will always be difficult is finding people who feel such affinity with the child that they will go out of their way to do the tiny precious things that make children thrive-giving a reason why rather than just saying no, rewarding a small triumph with a joyful expression, risking a tantrum to correct a small habit that could be overlooked but would be better resolved, showering unqualified devotion. -Karl Zinsmeister,