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...developers and residents overcame their mutual distrust is a story that both groups say may hold important lessons for other growing cities...
This extreme distrust of liberals may have been the reason Kenyatta ran for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1975. At the time, Frank L. Rizzo--whom Kenyatta calls "the George Wallace of the North"--was up for reelection and being challenged by a white liberal state senator, Louis G. Hill, for the party's nomination. Hill was counting on support from the city's Black population to beat Rizzo, and most of the city's Black leaders gave...
...influence on the West Bank. This was the root of Sadat's distrust of Begin's motives, and I admit that I shared the belief that the Israeli leader would do almost anything concerning the Sinai and other issues to protect Israel's presence in "Judea and Samaria." I expressed this concern as forcefully as possible. Begin was evasive. His proposal was that everyone simply live together, with the question of sovereignty to be decided later...
...read the notes in front of him as if they were an unfamiliar script One of the participants in that meeting concluded as he watched the President that Reagan really carried a fundamental distrust of the figures being show ered on him, showing huge deficits to come and continuing high interest rates. "What's wrong with Wall Street?" Reagan grumped more than once. He felt that...
...example), above levels that Congress has authorized? Would lawsuits force the federal courts to decide what spending is or is not constitutional? Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "The courts would do a line-by-line review of the federal budget," a prospect sure to horrify conservatives who distrust the federal judiciary. The amendment has definite appeal to be sure; while it would not make it impossible for Congress to keep on spending more than it takes in, it would at least help to curtail profligacy. But the amendment also raises enough questions to recall H.L. Mencken...