To the Editors of the Crimson:
Having declared his allegiance to Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.)'s campaign in an editorial last Monday, Michael W. Hirschorn proceeded to write Tuesday's seemingly unbiased, "News Analysis of the differences between Hart and Mondale. I see that Michael learned his lesson well, hanging out with the press in New Hampshire, and now seeks to extend their misleading claims to objecticity in political affairs to the pages of the Crimson.
At least faithful (and critical) readers of The Crimson will remember from Monday that the reporter assigned all fall to cover the Democratic primaries is a Hart supporter, and will therefore disregard passages such as.
Hart was ridiculed by Mondale at Sunday's debate when he advocated entrepeneurship programs to help the poor and minorities. Hart said he didn't want merely to give jobs to the unemployed, but also to help them to start their own businesses, and will instead turn to the verbatim account of the debate printed in The New York Times. There we find that Mondale did not attack Hart for supporting entrepreneurship programs, but for claiming that such programs were a "new idea" free from the influence of "a handful of constituency groups.... that cannot make this economy grow again." Mondale then went on to say.
I think that a private healthy economy is indispensable to everybody. If you don't have a growing, healthy economy with entrepreneurship and small businesses.... the key here is to make certain that the prosperity and the entrepreneurship is found in minority communities as well. There's a lot we can do through the Small Business Administration, through tax incentives, through Federal licensing laws to make certain that more blacks, Hispanics, women and other minorities can participate in the fullness of profit-making.
I think the true differences between the candidates are beginning to emerge, though I will not presume, with Michael to tell you what they are. Let the facts speak for themselves, even if it is now after the primary. Damon Krukowski '85
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