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Both reports relied heavily on evidence supplied by a small, neoconservative group called the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which set off the present furor (see box). Last week the I.R.D. produced a 100-page booklet with more documentation for its sweeping claim that the foreign policy activity of many Protestant agencies "often leans in some significant ways toward the Marxist-Leninist left...
...moment like Richard Allen and Ernest Lefevre. That may be true. The Wednesday resignation of Burford may lay this scandal to rest; the attention span of the public is short, and the media will soon latch onto another scandal. But what should not be lost amidst the political furor is the substantive concern that the EPA is--or should be--very important agency, not for political reasons but for human reasons. The government cannot deal with all future hazardous waste problems by buying out the town and moving all its inhabitants somewhere else, as it did in Times Beach...
...first notable analysis, Defense Facts of Life, was suppressed until Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, who had heard of it, insisted that it be declassified. Spinney professes still not to understand the furor that it kicked off; he had intended it only to enable his superiors to make more intelligent decisions. Says he: "I had no idea what was going to happen...
...with these legal procedures offer no meaningful promise of deterring individuals from future wrongs, they become a mockery of the ideal of justice rather than the best that justice can provide under less than ideal circumstances. The probability that Sharon will remain in the Israeli Cabinet, and that the furor over the Commission report will obscure the collective capability of the Israeli leadership for the broader violations of law and morality in the invasion of Lebanon, suggest that justice here has been mocked rather than vindicated...
Despite the furor over his Islamization plans, Ershad has made an impressive start on Bangladesh's troubles. He has revitalized the private sector by returning more than 300 industrial enterprises to private ownership. Ershad has jailed seven former Cabinet ministers on charges of corruption. He has reduced the price of such staples as rice, sugar and wheat, and he hopes to raise food-grain output 25% by 1986, mostly by Introducing higher-yield crops...