Word: comments
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...party dependence on interest groups, i.e. big labor. He notes the explicit appeal--as was amply demonstrated by Gary Hart's presidential pitch--to rise above this sectarian approach to things, to realize that governing does not mean pandering piecemeal to every possible constituency. And he properly makes the comment that all this being said, the call for the "national interest" as opposed to the "special interest" is in itself a political ploy on the part of those he calls neoliberals. "If one thing rings false in all the rhetoric of neoliberalism." Rothenberg writes near the end, "it is that...
More than 90% of Mexicans are nominally Roman Catholic; yet anticlerical laws forbid the church to own property, operate primary schools or comment on public affairs. The result is a series of compromises, and the constitution bows to both sides of the birth-control controversy by decreeing that "each person has the right to decide in a free, responsible and informed manner about the number [of] children...
...help. By a vote of 254 to 145, it gave provisional approval for divorced individuals to be married in church after their cases have been reviewed and approved by the local Bishop and parish Priest. The proposal now goes to the church's 44 dioceses for comment before a final vote by the General Synod...
...destruction." Hart denied that Youngbird was any kind of guru and said the ceremony had been an innocuous dedication of a park. On top of that flap, Hart was quoted in the Denver Post as calling Mondale's interviews in North Oaks "something very close to pandering." His lame comment: "I don't recall the context...
Spence could not be reached for comment yesterdays and Rosovsky, after taking calls from reporters for 11 years, declined comment through his secretary...