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Specifically, I question your description of Reagan and the Congress as men "who would sully the memory of brave men who fought other, noble wars..." I am curious as to your definition of "noble wars." I must assume you speak of the Second World War. Nobly as it was portrayed in our propaganda, one must question its causes. Win war proclaimed by the name Roosevelt who sat idly by watching Germany fall to depression and the Nazis, the same humanistic Congress that merely chided the invasion of Ethopia and China by aggressive powers? Was this the same passionate government...
...question is a historic one. It was confronted by the founding fathers, debated by each succeeding generation and fiercely fought in the country's only civil war. Which powers are the proper province of the national Government and which are reserved to the states? In his State of the Union message last week, Ronald Reagan dramatically raised the issue once again, proposing the most radical shift in governmental authority since the New Deal. His scheme would transfer programs to the states costing more than $49 billion by fiscal 1987, which is more than half the money Washington distributes...
Questions of property are hard fought, but quarrels over who keeps the children can be even rougher. A solution that has been gaining acceptance is joint custody, now available in some 20 states. Perhaps the ultimate in sharing was put together last month by Circuit Judge Charles Forster in Traverse City, Mich. Cheryl and Allan Church may go their separate ways, he said, but their three teen-age boys in a sense will get custody of the house. Under the plan, the ex-mates will move in and out each month. For the Churches, at least, the arrangement is perfect...
...recently agreed to lower the height of the proposed research center, which the Residents of Charles River Park group had said would obstruct their view of the river, and to relocate the Resident Physician House, which the Boston Hill Society had fought to save...
...people were sacrificed in the name of the prevailing order or orthodoxy. When the war was over, people went back to muddling through--ideologies rose and fell, beliefs waxed and waned, fanaticisms spread and were eradicated. At worst, a generation of young men was wiped out. But now, war, fought to its utmost, carries with it the very real possibility (some scientists would say the certainty) of extinction. Not only the elimination of everyone alive today, but also of the next generations, however many until the sun explodes, and with them any human hope. That very horror--of a world...