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...that was diametrically opposed to his view. The Constitution alone merited a citizen's supreme loyalty, and it is to be followed with the utmost reverence. Even as the general public made its racism known, Blacks put all their faith in the words of the nation's governing charter, Stokes said. The Constitution matters more than the passing will of the majority, and Blacks fear people such as North who abrogate the highest law in the name of the people, Stokes said. By suggesting that North's philosophy was one which frightened Blacks, Stokes indirectly helped to explain the presence...
...when Argentina, faced with a liquidity squeeze, called for an ad hoc meeting in Paris with all of its creditor governments. Since then, the group has evolved into one of the financial world's most important "non-institutions," as one representative called it. The club has no official charter, no staff of its own or even a permanent headquarters. It works by a set of unwritten rules and owes much of its significance to the refined negotiating skills and political savoir faire of a succession of French Finance Ministry officials who, in the words of former U.S. Comptroller...
...prominent of Ollie's operatives was Richard Secord, the retired Air Force major general who had helped to create several private companies, including Lake Resources Inc., a Panamanian shell corporation with a Swiss bank account. Through Secord's companies, North was able to move Iranian arms money, buy planes, charter ships and perform myriad tasks that seemed beyond the abilities of the Government bureaucracies. Says Livingstone: "Ollie was in a white rage all the time over the help the CIA gave him." In a computer note to National Security Adviser John Poindexter, North wondered, "Why Dick can do something...
American Scene: "They can't do that," everyone in the U.S. enjoys saying. "It's against my constitutional rights." Profiles of three who believe in doing more than talking about the abstract principle. The Court: The charter means what the high bench says it means. In samples of their views, the Justices speak their minds...
...Does the framers' handiwork need fixing? Changing the charter has never been easy, but that has not stopped a lot of Americans from trying. A new convention is even possible. People: A sampling of opinion in the U.S. and abroad on the Constitution's strengths and weaknesses, its gifts and its shortcomings...