The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.