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...commission, which must report by Dec. 31, will probably issue conflicting recommendations. Its Republicans will demand that Social Security's problems be solved primarily by limiting benefits; its Democrats will insist that tax increases be the principal solution. That in turn could set the stage for a chaotic battle in Congress next year, since the main Social Security trust fund will be unable to send out pension checks on time by next July. The day of reckoning can be put off by extending the fund's authority to borrow from the separate Medicare and disability trust funds...
...satirical piece could have been effected. Similarly, a serious interpretation, though ambitious, considering the play's outdated political theories and melodramatic tendencies, could have provided an effective dramatization. The cast, however, chooses simply to not interpret the play, instead incorporating stereotypes, political theory and melodrama indiscriminately, thereby presenting a chaotic version of Ibsen's vision...
Police said he may have had an accomplice who ran into the monument during the chaotic scene Officers searched the building for three and a half hours after flooding it with tear gas but did not find anyone inside...
...politicians are to move towards involvement, them newspaper reporters must stop selling both their inaccurate version of the political process rationality and their superficial emphasis on the shock value of news. Instead, the media--through a more analytical approach to reporting--should educate the public about the often chaotic workings of the political system. Given a chance to think about political news, rather than just to react to it, people will take advantage of the system's openness to citizen participation...
...latest crisis differs radically from previous U.S. bouts of unhappiness with the U.N. As a founding member of the organization, Washington has usually tolerated, although sometimes restively the posturing of U.N. members as a necessary safety valve in the chaotic world of international politics. No longer. The most recent confrontations over Israel reveal that the Reagan Administration has adopted a new, highly aggressive attitude toward the U.N. The U.S. goal is not just to defend Israel. It is to arrest a political trend that threatens to discredit the work of the U.N. and its specialized bodies As a senior State...