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...attacking the basic problem of job creation, the first sound step is to recognize that the Government cannot and should not try to do it all. Given the public's dismay with inflation and high taxes, there is nothing close to the political consensus that would be needed to support liberal cries for massive job programs or a "Marshall Plan for the cities." Despite some successes, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is too well remembered as one in which benefits often trickled up to the so-called poverticians?the programmers, social workers and suppliers to the needy. Any massive...
Blacks helped put Jimmy Carter in the White House, casting more than 90% of their votes for him and providing his winning margin in 13 states. But, to their dismay, he has paid far more attention in his first six months as President to foreign policy and balancing the budget than to solving the problems faced by poor people in the ghettos...
When Syrian forces began attacking Palestinian troops and their Muslim leftist allies during the Lebanon civil war, a worried Yasser Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia seeking help. To the dismay of the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, the Riyadh government refused to intervene with Damascus. But as a kind of consolation prize, Crown Prince Fahd expansively wrote Arafat a check for $5 million...
...with great dismay and utter disbelief that I learned about the report on human sexuality [June 13]. I find it incredible that some Catholic theologians are giving their approval to extramarital sex and teaching that such relationships can be "creative and integrative for all involved." Who repealed God's commandment: Thou shall not commit adultery...
...represent the conservative Shlomzion Party, new Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and one independent. Begin had hoped to build a sturdier and broader-based coalition by getting the support of the centrist, 15-member Democratic Movement for Change. Talks between the parties bogged down on foreign policy. To the dismay of DMC Leader Yigael Yadin, Likud refused to soften its stand on the West Bank or on the issue of new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. The DMC also objected to Begin's choice of Dayan as Foreign Minister. Yadin's party temporarily broke off negotiations, and Begin...