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should be made aware of these matters and move to correct them. The
government should foster and help sustain artist created and controlled
institutions to channel government money , and to ensure that government
money does not mean government control. Otherwise , the experiment of
government funding of the arts may become a major cultural disaster.
ARTHUR LAURENTS
The problem facing. the Carter Administration is the usual: active
recognition of the moral issues in a changing world versus political expe–
diency leading to capitulation to the conglomerate-military complex .
Example : safeguards in nuclear plants (as well as an end to the missile race)
while developing an energy program .
RAYMOND S. RUBINOW
With the advent of the Carter Administration , concerned citizens will
hope for the beginning of a long overdue breakthrough in the world 's
closing nuclear vise.
A leading expert, Professor Richard A. Falk of Princeton, sums up the
dismal prospect as follows :
1. by 1985, fifty countries will have nuclear plutonium-producing
capacity;
2 . arms control experts agree that
ifpresent tends continue,
there will be
atomic war by year 2000;
3. it is too late to talk about "curbing" nuclear
proliferation;
civilian
and military
denudearization
is called for ;
4 . in the recent campaign both candidates based their statements on
the common assumption of the continued use of the nuclear deterrent
as an instrument of foreign policy .
Query: Can President Carter, the nuclear engineer, reexamine his
views and give strong leadership to
reversing
present trends?
MARYA MANNES
When I got his first flyer over a year ago from " the man nobody
knew ," ] immy Carter, I said to myself:
this
is the man America needs . I had
a sudden feeling of great relief as I looked at his face . I remembered having
