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...Candidate Jimmy Carter vowed to consolidate federal educational bureaucracies into one Cabinet-level Department of Education. Three years later, with Congress's help, he did. In 1980 Candidate Reagan promised to abolish Carter's creation. But nearly two years later, stymied by congressional opposition, he hasn't. In fact, the Department of Education (ED), with a $14 billion annual budget, 5,000 employees and an articulate Cabinet Secretary, Terrel Bell, is as controversial and potent a force in American education as it has ever been, operating at the cutting edge of many major issues...
...liberal Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who had successfully promoted repeal of the death penalty in France last year. In the other was his fellow Socialist, longtime Marseille Mayor Gaston Defferre, who as Interior Minister is the country's top cop. Badinter was urging the National Assembly to abolish a much-hated law, inherited from the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted that he wanted "reinforcement of the powers of the police." In the midst...
Raskin: When Mike and I call ourselves radical, we mean it in the formal sense, going to the roots and getting to the roots of problems. I think we adhere pretty closely to the old Socialist formulation of trying to abolish the power of man over...
Evelyn Murphy, the only female candidate and state Secretary of Environmental Affairs under former governor Michael Dukakis, said the politician's task is not to fault Prop, 2 1/2 but "to get tax dollars to work harder," Government must "set sensible priorities" and abolish unnecessary services, she added...
Reagan ordered registration last week, reversing his long-standing opposition to the program and reneging on his campaign promise to abolish...