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Explosive Clash...
...schedule as few press conferences as possible, and to have some rehearsed ad lib ready for the cameras as they stepped from a plane. Thus bypassed, reporters badgered the candidates, "hoping," in Barber's words, "for some bit of quotable idiocy, usually making do with some hypothetical clash," and concentrated on gaffes...
Then, as the clash unfolded following my return from Israel in January, 1979, Garrity sought to characterize my quite conventional views on faculty autonomy as somehow amounting to academic "anarchy" (his own word). Thus, putting this together with his strong opposition to faculty unionism (especially if it supports a meaningful share of faculty governance in universities), one can readily see that President Garrity is not likely to cede to a faculty body the authority to decide whether or not to dismiss a professor for such offenses as "insubordination...
...dole out. Like many of his colleagues, Verba calls the suggestion of "regional primaries" a promising possibility. Under most models for such a system, primaries would be held in four or five regions, with a limited placed on the time and money any candidate could spend on each clash. A one-day national primary, however, draws no support from political experts here. "That's not a good idea," Maas says. "It would further reduce the influence of individual states...
...attack of the killer trees." Such nonsense has reduced his credibility in this field. Still, as Governor, he earned respect in California by upholding rigid water-pollution and smog-control laws and by protecting an additional 145,000 acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give priority to energy. Carter's priorities seem the reverse, although he, too, is a supporter of nuclear power expansion. He has been a strong backer of the Environmental Protection Agency and has supported the Clean Air Act despite...