Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. in an unguarded moment. succeeded in .simultaneously ridiculing the person of Pope Paul VI. millions of Roman Catholics throughout the world. and the sensitivity of many Italian Americans. This is the second time in a very short period of time that high ranking Ford administration officials have openly and with impunity engaged in ethnic slurs and the spreading of gross misinformation about two very large segments of the American population. This type of disregard for the sensitivities of these groups in American society is but the most recent evidence of the depreciation of the values and contributions of these immigrant and religious groups together with their descendants to the American mosaic of cultures. races. religion and sex groups. President Ford has called in these two officials and engaged in official wrist slapping. The result has been reluctant apologies which fail to undo the impression which this type of official bigotry gives to the American and international community.
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