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Tuesday come the platform debates, five in all. Jackson's forces will offer minority planks calling for the U.S. to adopt a "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons, cut defense spending sharply, commit itself to enforce affirmative-action goals in the hiring of minorities, and end the second, or runoff, primaries used in ten states when no candidate wins a majority of the vote. (Jackson argues that runoffs are discriminatory because blacks have a better chance of winning a plurality in a multicandidate field than outpolling a white in a head-to-head race.) Gary Hart, who commands roughly...
...Harvard, activists have fought unsuccessfully for more than a decade to get the University to adopt a similar policy and divest from all companies operating in South Africa in an attempt to get the country to end its segregated apartheid system...
...Wilentz wrote that society has now decided it must "do whatever is required ... to stop the senseless loss inflicted by drunken drivers." Washington seems to agree. Last week Congress approved and sent to the President a bill that will cut federal highway funds for states that do not adopt a minimum drinking...
...need the last $1.1 billion installment of the loan. What had happened? Increased domestic oil production and remittances from Indians working abroad helped reduce the deficits. But India had also gone to the IMF early, at a time when the fund's conditions were relatively easy to adopt...
Whether a second Reagan Administration will adopt a new, more realistic START policy will be determined to some extent by the President's own goals, but he had laudable goals as a candi date and as a newcomer to office. Given his apparent inability to engage himself in the arms-control policymaking process, much will depend on the team to which he delegates the task of realizing his objectives. His current team is dominated by individuals who have proved themselves unable, or unwilling, to pursue strategic arms control in a way that yields progress with the Soviets or that...