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...Losing him will be like losing my right arm," O'Brien added. "The budget office has a tradition of strong directors...
Mike Grossman '86, another Lowell House organizer, agreed that "there's no reason that [University] can't shatter" the set goals as Lowell House has. Both he and Baker said that their "strong-arm tactics" and "badgering" of friends and fellow house members seem to have paid...
...Island's John Chafee and Pennsylvania's John Heinz, nosed out Western Conservatives Jake Garn of Utah and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming for the chairmanships of the Republican Conference of the Senate and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which serve as the party caucus and fund-raising arm, respectively. Both men are notably less conservative than McClure and Lugar. whom they replace. "The White House is not going to like it." said one moderate Republican Senator...
...United Nations Security Council in New York City, introducing a resolution that called for the immediate end to the mining of Nicaraguan ports. The U.S. used its Security Council veto to block the resolution. The Nicaraguans then decided to take their complaint to the World Court, the judicial arm of the U.N. and the highest forum for resolving disputes between nations. When the U.S. learned of Nicaragua's intention, it launched an ill-conceived pre-emptive strike: just three days before Nicaragua filed suit, the U.S. asserted that it would not accept the "compulsory jurisdiction" of the court over...
Nevertheless, the fear remains that last month's election results may reverberate in the judicial arm for decades to come. To some, it would signify the long last return of the pendulum form the liberal days of the Warren Court. Others would say such a court would be an expression of the polity. But as Weinreb of the Law School puts it, "the hope in the Constitution is that the Court would restrain public opinion. A Reagan Court may facilitate...