” . . . Two dozen pro-Marxists . . . can in our own Congress influence great issues of defense, arms controls . . . ” White House spokesman Marlin Fitzpatrick believes ”that communists have influence . . . on the Congress, on the public, on the press, and on everybody.”
”President Reagan `absolutely` believes that the Soviet Union has influenced some members of Congress and some in the news media,” Washington Times editor Arnaud de Borchgrave states. ”We have two dozen pro-Marxists working within Congress.”
Twenty-five years ago these comments would have made nationwide headlines. The Chicago Tribune found room in section 1, page 3, of the Oct. 2 paper.
Perhaps this writer gets aroused too easily, but shouldn`t this be expounded upon a bit more than one 12-inch story?
And perhaps I`m unfashionably anticommunist, but such devastating implications require more than a feather-dusting and a yawn.
