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...issue before parliament. But Solidarity was now insisting on a far more sweeping plan that would give local workers' councils at most industrial enterprises broad decision-making powers, including the right to choose their own plant managers. Should the legislators fail to call a referendum and instead enact the government bill, the union threatened to boycott the law and "carry out the reforms...
...assistance is not made a mockery by those who would freeload off their fellow man." In 1965: "The civil rights movement, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King calls it, has had an uncommon number of moral degenerates leading the parade. The Negroes of America have a Congress that would tomorrow enact Webster's Dictionary into law with a civil rights label on it." Even 17th century metaphysicians were not safe. Helms chastised a state university teacher for assigning Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress. The instructor was removed...
Lobbying by MADD and similar organizations has already led several states to enact tougher laws, most of them dealing with sentencing. New York's legislature passed a bill providing a minimum $350 fine for a first drunk-driving offense ($250 even for those who bargain down to the lesser charge of "driving while ability is Impaired"). A major force behind the measure was Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID), a group formed in 1978 by Doris Aiken, 52, with a $50 contribution from her church. Says she: "Last year each drunk driver in New York paid, on the average...
Obviously, that kind of all-out effort cannot be exerted on every issue. Leaders of both parties generally expect the Republican-conservative Democratic coalition to hold together on economic issues. In particular, prospects have brightened considerably that Reagan can persuade Congress to enact his proposal to reduce income tax rates 25% over the next three years, the second step in his economic policy revolution, rather than adopt the Democrats' proposal for a two-year...
...court. His main criterion for candidates is clearly known, said White House Spokesman Larry Speaks, " He will not seek only candidates who necessarily agree with him on every position, but rather those who share one key view, the role of the courts is to interpret the law, not to enact new law by judicial fiat...