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...court: deference to legislators. While conceding that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law applies even to those illegally in the country (a seeming paradox to many laymen), Burger accused the majority of misusing that safeguard. "The Constitution," he said, "does not provide a cure for every social ill, nor does it vest judges with a mandate to try to remedy every social problem...
Reagan held forth for 20 minutes. Franklin Roosevelt, he said, had run in the 1936 election on a program of lowering unemployment through higher deficits, but that policy had not worked. "It took World War II to cure that," Reagan argued. A presidential survey of the failings of postwar Keynesianism was followed by a primer on Reaganomics: cutting the level of Government spending, deregulation and a tax program to stimulate investment. U.S. inflation was coming down, and unemployment, he hastened to add, started rising before his election; as for the recession, well, that was the Federal Reserve's fault...
...most of the crowd seemed more purposeful than defiant. Katherine Wedel, 17, left a New York hospital in her sick-bed smock to join the rally. "To me," she said, "it's important to be here because the money spent on bombs could be spent on finding a cure for Addison's disease," for which Wedel is being treated. Some placards were flip. One beery young man carried a sign that said DON'T BOMB US, WE'RE ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE ME A CHANCE...
According to scientists at universities throughout the country, the biotechnological industry cooled down once its wonder drug, interferon, proved not to be a miracle cure for cancer. The shrinking pubic appeal of these businesses led to a sharp reduction in investments and sparked an intense competition that has threatened many of the smaller firms. Jeremy R. Knowles, Amory Professor of Chemistry, predicts that "the smaller ones [will] be eaten by the larger ones in a Darwinian struggle for survival...
...course, America must be defended. It may regain its prosperity and exercise productive power in the world. Nor will social spending alone cure the nation's ills...