ELECTION TIME

1.) At least two AtE subscribers are running for Congress (not counting incumbents). One is Ray Shamie, practically a charter subscriber, who is running for the other Senate seat of the People's Republic of Massachusetts. In the September primaries he beat liberal smoothie and Watergate careerist Elliot Richardson by a landslide, even though the latter was endorsed in a gushing letter by 28 Republican senators, including not only the likes of Percy and Weicker, but also, yes, Hatch, Gam and McClure.

2.) The other is Nancy S. Pryor, a US Army Officer who is running in Pennsylvania's 22^nd Congressional District. In a longwinded question by the League of Women Voters on what she would do about all those environmental laws that Congress allegedly failed to enact under the Reagan administration, she was given only 35 words for a reply. She made it in 34: "All scientific evidence points to the clear-cut conclusion that the most substantial advances in cleaning up the environment are through the use of nuclear power, natures safest, cleanest, most economical and practical energy source."

4.) Deeply saddening is the departure of Ron Paul, M.D., who lost a primary (against Gramm, of all people) for a Senate seat and under Texas law cannot run for the House in the same year. Paul is the living proof that there is such a thing as a principled politician. On the day after the TMI accident (3/29/79), with the reactor not yet shut down, and the fools, knaves and parrots screaming murder, massacre and meltdown, Paul spoke on the floor of the House: "As a physician strongly concerned with health and safety, I prescribe more nuclear energy, not less for the people of our country..." Readers are urged to read his long, stirring and revealing farewell speech in the House (Congr. Rec. 9/19/84, or write Rep. R. Paul, 1234 Longworth, Wash. DC 20515): this is what politics should be, and what small-time politics isn't. A leading expert on financial and banking matters (member of several banking and financial committees in the House) with deep knowledge of behind-the-scenes Washington activity in this area, he will publish his unique insights in The Ron Paul Investment Letter (9001 Airport Blvd./#302, Houston, TX 77061) and continue to defend the cause to which he has dedicated his life: freedom.