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There is "a contradition which the governor hasn't really dealt with," Zabarsky said. "Health insurance is only as good as the health care...
...most surprising blow to Bork was dealt by the American Bar Association, which damned him with divided praise. Though the A.B.A.'s committee voted to grant Bork its highest rating, "well qualified," four of the 15 members felt that the judge was "not qualified." Given that the A.B.A. has unanimously approved the vast majority of court nominees over the past three decades, the number of dissents was striking. While most critics have attacked Bork on ideological grounds, the A.B.A. dissenters were not supposed to have even considered the judge's political philosophy. According to the committee's official guidelines, members...
...irrationality. Ronald Reagan once famously referred to a group of regimes that defy the rules of international conduct as the "strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." Less than two years later it was discovered that Reagan not only had dealt with these Looney Tunes but, in the words of his former chief of staff, had been snookered by them...
...enforce proper Islamic behavior and maintain the segregation of the sexes. The cinemas, which are often jammed, feature both postrevolutionary Iranian fare and heavily censored foreign films. One recent hit was Barabbas, a 1962 picture starring Anthony Quinn. Another was the Iranian film The Call of the Forest, which dealt with the popular resistance to the Cossacks, a cavalry unit at one time led by the late Shah's father Reza Shah, who ruled Iran from...
...President Reagan approved the plan. But many involved say that top officials were too distracted by the Iran-contra controversy to examine its implications fully. Ironically, the scandal provided an impetus to the reflagging proposal. Moderate Arab states reacted angrily last fall to news that the U.S. had secretly dealt with Iran. Kuwait then requested Soviet protection for its tankers. Administration officials concede that granting assistance to Kuwait was a way to make up for the U.S.'s loss of credibility and to counter the Soviet move...