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...month ago, opposition leaders thought they had a good chance of reducing the ruling Congress Party's strength in Parliament to less than the two-thirds necessary to amend India's constitution-just in case Mrs. Gandhi might decide to push through an amendment, as she did last year, to increase her powers. Given her standing as a national figure and the entrenched position of the Congress Party, the odds are that she will slip through with a narrow victory. But opposition leaders now believe, with reason, that they just might be able to defeat the Congress Party...
...decides to reinstate the dismissed cadets, it is questionable how many will return since they have gone on to other things. Any change in the honor system must be approved by the cadets themselves, who only this month narrowly failed to reach the two-thirds vote necessary to amend the current system. But the weight of the Borman report is expected to change enough minds to modify the code in a subsequent vote. Says Cadet Peter Eschenbach, class of '78: "I used to be a hard-liner about the code, but after seeing my friends fall by the wayside...
Indeed, organizations has been much more of an issue in RUS this semester than self-definition. The first thing the legislature did this year was formally amend the by-laws to take care of some bureaucratic hassles that had arisen. Norris has organized the files from a loose collection of papers and folders that for years lay forgotten at the bottom of somebody's drawer into an efficient orange file cabinet, one of the few pieces of furniture in the RUS room. The recording secretary takes impressive minutes, which are read aloud at the beginning of each biweekly meeting...
Certainly, consistency is not always a virtue in a politician. It becomes a vice if it means that a candidate or officeholder will never amend his judgment, never compromise on issues or respond to the shifting pressures of democratic government. For both Ford and Carter, each switch on an issue has to be examined on its own merits to determine whether it shows an unsure, vacillating nature, a yielding to short-term political expendiency-or perhaps a sensible change of mind...
...appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston, Southern Baptist Carter reiterated his familiar position. He believes abortion to be morally wrong and opposes it except in cases where a mother's life is threatened or she is a rape victim. At the same time, he does not favor constitutional amendments that would either ban abortions or give the states the right to decide the matter. Under the scrutiny of the bishops, however, Carter wavered. He agreed with them that the Democratic platform went too far in saying that "it is undesirable to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme...