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...Iran-contra fiasco and Bork's defeat in the Senate have given the President strong incentive to play up the significance of the forthcoming agreement. Add the stock market instability, and the President's last claim to fame is in jeopardy. So Reagan has abandoned his avowed realism in order to distort the agreement's utility...
...Tomming" continue to be levelled against Blacks who propound conservative ideas. Williams, for instance, says he and the other conservatives suffer "a lot of ostracizing" by other Black academics. Indiana Law School Professor John T. Baker's last minute decision not to testify in favor of Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court also suggests that the broadening of debate Kilson senses has not come about...
...President accepts his [Ginsburg's]statement, doesn't feel that it influences hisjudicial qualifications, and the President standsby his nomination," White House spokesman MarlinFitzwater said yesterday. Reagan's previousnominee, Judge Robert H. Bork, lost hisconfirmation bid two weeks ago by a Senate vote of58...
...depression like the one ushered in by the 1929 Crash? What would happen to the dollar, to interest rates, to world trade? What might Ronald Reagan do to calm the markets? Could a President who was so weakened by the Iran-contra affair and the impending defeat on the Bork nomination, and who was distracted by war in the Persian Gulf and his wife's cancer operation, possibly quell the financial turmoil? Did he even understand that he faced a first-class crisis of confidence in his leadership...
...ending his last, best hope for recovering from a string of setbacks that have left him, with 15 months remaining in his term, not just a lame duck but a crippled one. One after another, his major goals for this fall have gone aglimmering: the appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the hope to win renewed funding for the contras in Nicaragua, and his aim of pushing through a budget plan that would protect defense spending without raising existing taxes or imposing new ones. The stock-market plunge only magnified his new aura of ineffectiveness. Through...