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...situation demanded strong words, and President Carlos Saul Menem did not shrink from using them. In his July 8 inaugural address, Menem urged his citizens to "Get up and walk!" Argentina, he declared, "is broken, devastated, razed. Inflation has reached chilling levels, but we aren't going to administer the decline. We will pulverize the crisis...
Focusing on recent Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, Director of Boston Lawyers for Civil Rights Alan J. Rom, told the audience of 35 people that the United States could only effectively address civil rights issues if it had the will, which, he said, it currently does...
Investigators contacting Pierce's old Manhattan law firm were told he resigned in 1981. They would check his business address, but he doesn't have one. The searchers believe he lives in New York. Exactly where? Nobody knows. When he is in Washington, he stays with a friend. Who? Nobody knows. Why not subpoena Pierce? Well, says a subcommittee staffer, "you have to have an address." The HUD probe may drag on for months. So could the search for Silent...
...disaster facing America's state legislators, and potentially its national legislators, is that they may have to address an issue of public policy on which many of their constituents have strong and irreconcilable opinions. This they hate to do and are skilled at avoiding, even though it is what they are paid for. They would far rather pass laws against burning the flag. But there is no Gramm-Rudman-style automatic chopping machinery that can resolve the abortion issue. Nor can abortion be finessed by handing it over to a commission of distinguished experts (although this ploy will undoubtedly...
Still, there are many heartening signs of change in Japan. Miwako Kurosaka, a longtime environmental activist, says with some awe that she has been invited to address a prestigious Keizaikai study group for senior executives that ordinarily devotes its sessions to business and politics. Diet member Kosugi points out that meetings of his environmental subcommittee, which used to draw five or six legislators to a small room, now draw 40 or more, forcing a move to larger quarters...