Word: equalizing
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Although less famous than the celebrated Rancho del Cielo, the Century Plaza holds almost equal claim to the title "Western White House." It is the President's home away from home when he visits Los Angeles, and its staff is trained to accommodate the hordes of Secret Service agents and reporters who accompany him. It was here that the President slept soundly, undisturbed by his aides, when U.S. fighter planes returned hostile fire and shot down two Libyan jets several years...
Given the present exacerbated state of relations between our two countries and the present aggravations in the world at large, we must admit that today, thus far, there do exist certain restraints on the actions of either side. There is strategic parity. That is, after all, the foundation of equal security. There are also still in effect such treaties as the ABM treaty, the SALT II provisions, the nonproliferation treaty, the banning of nuclear weapons tests in three environments. To this day, so far, they are in operation. But even today, attempts are being made to remove these restraints...
...goal will be all the harder to achieve, if it is possible at all. Then a process might be launched that would be simply impossible even to conceive of today. That is why we are calling upon the U.S. to reach an accord with us on the basis of equal security, to reach an accord first and foremost on all three components, the most dangerous strategic offensive arms, medium-range arms and space weapons...
...results of the religious right's lobbying in Washington have been mixed. Its efforts have helped win fights in Congress on such issues as abortion funding and a law guaranteeing "equal access" to school facilities for voluntary religious and nonreligious student groups. President Reagan supports school prayer, and antiabortion legislation and several of his appointments have gratified the religious right. Among them: William Bennett, a Roman Catholic who backs religious day schools, as Secretary of Education; former Moral Majority Lobbyist Robert Billings as Assistant Secretary of Education; Pro-Life Presbyterian C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General...
...public view, opposition to the theory of evolution has characterized Fundamentalism since its birth. Today's activists do not ask for a ban on the teaching of evolution, as they did at the Scopes trial, but for "balance." That means equal school time for creationism, which follows a particularly literal reading of Genesis. Not only were Adam and Eve the first two humans, creationists contend, but Bible chronology means the earth was created by God a mere 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. (Most scientists, Evangelicals included, estimate that the earth came into being 4.5 billion years ago.) Balancing...