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...said Cuomo. "The issue is called survival." Many prominent Republicans in the state were also alarmed. To protest the proposed change, G.O.P. Senator Alfonse D'Amato staged a mock re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party from a 62-foot sloop in New York City's East River. Even ardent Tax Reformer Jack Kemp, a Congressman from upstate, favors adjustments that would ease the tax burden on New York residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Big Under Treasury Ii | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...many fans refuse to divide their loyalties; ardent Krok fans say that they rarely miss a major concert. "They are good singers and have great senses of humor," said Wellesley freshman Cindy M. Hoyle, adding that she thinks the Kroks compare favorably with similarly groups from other colleges. "The Kroks are better performers--they liven up the audience more...

Author: By Joshua L. Dunajey, | Title: The Krokodiloes Strive for a Snappy Concert | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

Craig said Senate sub-committee hearings on the bill will be held April 16 and 25, but predicted the bill will not reach the Senate floor before this fall because of expected opposition from Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), an ardent Reagan supporter...

Author: By Joseph F. Kans, | Title: Bok Endorses Measures To Pressure South Africa | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...that would banish the terror of nuclear war forever, by making the U.S. invulnerable to assault, then Star Wars almost certainly cannot work. Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger characterizes the headier versions of a Star Wars plan as "half Buck Rogers, half P.T. Barnum," and even the most ardent proponents generally con- cede that no technology now known or foreseeable could be guaranteed to destroy every warhead the Soviets could launch. Some percentage would always get through, causing death and devastation beyond the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the High-Tech Frontier | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...slightly in labor of total divestiture," not are people "learning towards the idea of intensive dialogue." I motions run deep in any debate about a regime as oppressive and heinous as South Africa's; as today's majority opinion asserts, there is some ground on which ardent supporters of any particular practical measures or moral statement can agree...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Healthy Debate | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

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