Butter and vodka scandals test price controls and public dissent
The piece compares U.S. butter price supports and a bizarre sale to New Zealand to smuggle butter to the USSR, alleging taxpayer losses and a NZ monopoly. It then describes Moscow graffiti protesting vodka price hikes and Soviet reactions to Polish unrest tied to shortages, framing it as public discontent unsettling the Kremlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corp
CCC
Alexander Haig
Ussr
Afghanistan
Kremlin
New Zealand Dairy Board
New Zealand
New
Moscow
Poland
Solidarity
Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Buckley on Goldwater and the New Right in religion politics
In a perspective on the Goldwater stance and the New Right, the author argues that religious issues have universal moral weight beyond denominational disputes. He cites emancipation, slavery, and civil rights, contending religion should inform public policy and the role of the courts, while criticizing moral smugness and political preachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IAM
Goldwater
John Brown
Nat Turner
Senator Goldwater
Martin Luther King Jr
Abraham Lincoln
Supreme Court
Congress
William Sloane Coffin Jr
South Vietnam
Goldwaters Clash With Religious Right Shaped by Ideology
William L. Rusher notes how Barry Goldwater condemns the religious right while sharing economic conservatism. Giamatti targets Moral Majority as dangerous, but Goldwater warns against dictating morality to Americans, reflecting tensions within conservative ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
T.S. Eliot
Yale
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Jerry Falwell
Giamatti
United States
Barry Goldwater
Capitol Hill
Goldwater
Nixon
Reagan
Ford
Castro's plan to destabilize the United States examined
The piece argues Castro aims to trigger U.S. crises by exporting prisons and fomenting violence, aided by supporters in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and certain U.S. factions. It cites 1980 warnings, Cuban exit visas, and the embargo as accelerants, plus remarks on Cuban youth and internal espionage concerns.
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Castro
Cuba
CIA
State Department
National Security Council
Congressional
United States
United Sttes
Washington
Chen Wen-cheng
Carnegie-Mellon University
Taiwan
Chen
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lucette Lagnado
Department
FBI
Department of Justice
Coordination Council For
CCNAA
PNG
Justice Department
Jim Leach
Iowa
Steve Solarz
D-N.y
House
Solarz
DOJ
Justice
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Hugh Ike Shott
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
Hugh Shott
Richard Wesley
William F. Buckley
William L. Rusher
Richard Viguerie
Senate
Arizona
Arizona Right To Life Movement
Right To Lifers
Bart Giamatti
Paul Harvey
Daniel James
Americas
James
U.N
Miami
Robin Hood
Florida
Jack Anderson
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
BATF
National Rifle Association
NRA
UAT
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