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? Conservative is not label for Nixon By Richard A. Vlguerie "...I am a conservative -- and ^ also, curiously enough, a conser P vative who is not an isolationist, who is not a reactionary, who is for progress, who is an interna tionalist... The media people, there's no question that most of them don't particularly care for me because I'm a conservative and they're liberals." That's how Richard Nixon described himself during his recent ^ television interview with Frank Gannon. Is Richard Nixon a conser vative? Remember, it was Nixon who imposed wage and price con trols... negotiated the SALT I trea ty that gave the Soviets a three-to two advantage in ICBMs...arrang ed the "sweetheart" deal with the Soviets that gave them American grain at a lower price than ^Americans had to pay...and, in stead of repealing many of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society pro grams, raised taxes to pay for them and greatly expanded them. It was Nixon who proposed the greatest welfare scheme in history, the so-called Family Assistance Plan. He took the U.S. off the gold standard. Declaring that "We ~ are all Keynesians now," he began P an unprecedent string of budget deficits and touched off the most inflationary decade of the century. The father of "detente ' (which legitimized the communist enslave ment of 1.6 billion people), he re mained quiet while the Soviets turned Cuba into a nucicar for tress. He sought a negotiated set tlement, not victory, in the Viet nam war ? a no-win strategy that ^ led to the communist conquest of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. During his tenure, the U.S. lost its military superiority over the Soviet Union and began a decline that continued through the 1970s. ; Under Nixon, the Commerce Department approved the sale of ball bearing grinders to the Soviets (machines they use to build 'their missiles). He increased ) U.S./Soviet trade by 600 percent and ended the ban on the export of Us 1111CouI c{ be Cjoikstf 3 noode I ^ but" fess -f^ecj'fce off -f^e ^ftcxwcl .' high technology to the Soviet Union. He appointed mostly moderates and liberals like Elliot Richardson, Henry Kissinger, George Romney, William Ruckelshaus, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan to high posi tions in the U.S. government. He signed the laws creating the Legal Services Corporation, the En vironmental Protection Agency, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The Com prehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) ? one of the top boondoggles of the decade - and the revenue sharing program were proposed by Nixon. He doubled and then tripled the budgets of the National En dowments for the Arts and Humanities and he increased spen ding for public broadcasting by 500 percent. As a concession to the communist Chinese, he acknowledged Taiwan as a part of mainland China and laid the ? groundwork for the expulsion of " Taiwan from the United Nations. He instituted racial quotas in hir ing by federal contractors. HOW TO BUY ELECTRICITY AT SALE PRICES. All kilowatt-hours are not created equal ly JBfe. There are off-peak llglf times each day when they cost us less to make. And when they can cost you less to buy Sign up TorCP&L's newUme-Of-Use Rates, and we'll install a special meter that tells us not only how much electricity you use, but when you use it. Then, at billingtime, we charge you a lower rate forthe electricity used during off-peak. Just by changing your times for things like showers and laundry you can save up to 15%. CP&L This time of year. off-peak times v\eekdcfys ore from 9pm to 10 am And oil doy Saturday and Sunday Opinions Population is shifting in nation's big cities By Cliff Blue The shift of population in this country is clearly demonstrated by the latest figures released by the Census Bureau on the nation's largest cities. Chicago and Philadelphia slip ped a notch, from number two and number four. New York, of course, is still the largest U.S. City by far, with over 7 million residents. Los Angeles, with over 3 million is second. Chicago is now third. Houston is fourth, ahead of Philadelphia. Half a million peo ple down the ladder from Philadelphia, Detroit, with 1.1 million, ranks sixth. Dallas is 7th, San Diego eighth, Phoenix ninth and San Antonio 10th. Thus Texas, into which Mex icans are flooding, has three cities in the nation's top ten. Honolulu, Baltimore, Indianapolis, San Fran cisco, San Jose, Memphis, Washington, Milwaukee, Colum bus, New Orleans, Boston, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Denver and Seattle follow in that order. RENTAL VEHICLES ... Read ing the newspapers you will come to the conclusion that rental car rates are almost totally illogical. In one area a company offers weekly rates at less than fifty dollars. In People and Issues another, the same company charges that much for a car for one or two days. Recently cars were being offered by the major companies in Miami for $39 a week. No comparable of fer was available in most other communities. The airlines have followed similar discriminatory pricing for years. One could almost invariably fly from New York to Miami for less than a hundred dollars, both in season and out. To fly half that distance one way to the midwest or South would often cost more. No laws are violated in either case. But transportation is almost a public service industry, and there's a moral obligation to pro vide the public roughly equal treat ment, without discrimination by section or region. LAND IN U.S.A....There are slightly more than a billion acres of farmland in the United States. That sounds like a lot, but when you divide it up by the population, it comes out to an average of four and one half acres per person. Only two of those four and one half acres are suitable for the pro duction of food and fiber. And if people attempted to grow their food and fiber needs on those two acres, they might well starve to death and have no clothes. Your two acres are dwindling in size. Fifty years ago, you had about five acres for food and fiber. With less land, we have to hope that U.S. farmers get even more ef ficient than they are now. The big gest concern should be the dwindl ing number of farmers and the dwindling profits from farming. Using today's figures, most farmers can get a better return on their money by putting it in the bank than they can get by using it to farm. That's something for all of us two-acre absentee farmers to worry about. POLITICIANS...We read in the Wall Street Journal that: "Politi cians slip in public esteem. A Roper poll finds confidence in U.S. Political leaders has dropped nine percentage points, to 65% since early 1981. More Americans now see top politicians as self seeking not very competent, even ruthless. Fewer people view them as very intelligent, socially respon sible or of high moral caliber." Television is not all By Lucien Coleman "You oughta turn off that boob-tubc and read yourself a good book for a change!" How many youthful paragons of the TV generation have heard unsettling words like that from Mom, just as their favorite slam dunk artists were getting on a real roll. Though televisions almost out number people today, the medium has never lived down its bad reputation as a purveyor of mindless inanity. And little wonder, what with all the toilet Things That Matter tissue squeezing, panty girdle snap ping, and yelling auto salesman TV commercials. But maybe the myth that "books are better" ought not to be accepted uncritically. Let me tell you, for example, about my recent tour through a mail-order bookseller's catalog. What will it be. Mom? A book showing off "a breath-taking col lection of silky, saucv, sexy, lingerie," or an instruction manual bad on How to Regain Your Virginity? Or maybe a more scientific work on How to Hypnotize Yourself and Others? For more morbid minds, we have 101 Uses for a Dead Cat. And, for history buffs, Whatever Became of Beaver Cleaver & 149 Other Super Celebrities. Serious students of the fine arts will no doubt be edified by Leg Art, The Complete Book of Erotic Art, How to Draw Dirty Pictures, and Cheeks, a "saucy, sexy behind-the-scenes photographic look at men and their posteriors." *1 hank, 1 Daniel H. DeVane Pd. Pol. Ad. People,'i, jbuutta, Room* Is Now Serving You Home Cooked Meals And Seafood JAZZ MUSIC Friday & Saturday after 9 p.m. 104 N. Main St. 875-6374 OPEN DAILY 11 A.M. - 1:30 A M JTPA SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM APPLICATIONS Now Available At The Following Locations Upchurch Junior High School Hoke High School Hoke Co. Board of Education Job Service Parks 8t Recreation Public Library Teacher Day USA MAY 9,1984 Hoke County NCAE North Carolina Association of Educator* National Education Association *
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