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...votes. They are largely a staunchly secularist group, with an aversion to the politics of Erdogan and company. But the judges are also bound to weigh the evidence on legal grounds and decide whether the government's actions, regarding the headscarf and other matters, warrant such drastic action...
...order to head off SDI. This possibility is sometimes called the ''grand compromise.'' Such a deal could accomplish what Reagan proclaimed as his goal when he sought to replace SALT with the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks during his first term. The Soviets would be required to cut back drastically on their ICBM warheads in a way that reduced or, better yet, eliminated the theoretical possibility of a first strike against American ICBMs and the danger of political intimidation and blackmail that they might derive from that capability. During his first term, Reagan proposed drastic reductions in Soviet offensive forces, especially...
...meetings and impose press censorship. Police and troops were given authority to use whatever force they deem necessary to break up illegal gatherings, and cannot be taken to court in any criminal or civil prosecution for actions they take in ''good faith.'' The emergency powers are the most drastic yet in the government's effort to crush a black rebellion that in the past 21 months has taken more than 1,700 lives, almost all of them black. Colin Eglin, leader of the white opposition Progressive Federal Party, called the decree ''the most severe clampdown on civil liberty...
...Mugabe and refused to recognize his government. Instead, with the dissent of a few countries, notably Botswana, the Union merely passed a feeble resolution suggesting a government of national unity, which Mugabe in any case would not accept. It is tragic that the A.U. ignored the opportunity to take drastic action. Instead, it has lost whatever credibility it had. Edward R.C. Preston, Auckland...
Barroso would be right - if this were 2000, and not 2008. But a year after the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out an alarming case for drastic action, and a month after the U.S. Senate began serious debate on sharply cutting American carbon emissions, the G-8's fuzzy-minded statement falls far short of what's needed from the world. Despite pressure from major developing nations attending the summit (who argue that industrialized countries need to act first on global warming), the G-8 refused to set short-term emissions-cut targets...