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...question "Do you favor sex education in the schools, including information about birth control?" And yet, despite the majority opinion, the subject of sex education remains a divisive one. On one side are those like Wattleton of Planned Parenthood who argue that Americans should learn to accept adolescent sexuality and make guidance and birth control more easily available, as it is in parts of Europe. On the other side are those who contend that sex education is up to the parents, not the state, and that teaching children about birth control is tantamount to condoning promiscuity. Sex-education classes...
There was no such progress in other familiar trouble spots. South Africa was torn by unremitting violence as blacks demanded abolition of apartheid and whites were willing to accept only gradual change. Guerrilla wars in Central America raged unchecked, and the so-called peace process in the Middle East made no discernible headway. Nature joined politics in contributing to human misery as earthquakes in Mexico City, a volcano eruption in Colombia and a cyclone in Bangladesh claimed tens of thousands of victims. In the U.S., Reagan became the first President to confer the full powers of his office voluntarily...
Unless, that is, the President is willing to accept a tax increase, a step he has ferociously resisted in the past with the threat of a "make-my-day" veto. But with at least half of the budget effectively off limits to spending surgeons, even some Republicans in Congress believe that Reagan will have to compromise on this issue. As long as the President clings to his goals of a growing defense budget and protecting the safety-net social programs, says Domenici, "there will have to be some sort of tax enhancement." Possible candidates are a tax on oil imports...
Some White House officials speculate that the President might accept a low-visibility "revenue enhancement" if he were persuaded by his closest advisers that it would preserve his defense program, achieve historic tax reform and help reduce the deficit. "We would fight them like hell," says one White House official of any new tax proposals. "But we could end up compromising...
...returned there in August after unidentified arsonists fire bombed her Brandfort residence. Not surprisingly, Mandela blamed the government for that bombing. When police officers arrived last week with new orders that ended the forced exile in Brandfort but still prohibited her from entering Soweto, Mandela refused to accept the official papers or to leave the house...