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...trade in firearms and allow their possession by some categories of felons. In addition, Reagan plans to cut back or abolish the agency that now enforces federal gun laws, the Treasury Department's bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Although 62% of those surveyed in the most recent Gallup poll say they favor tighter gun laws, opponents of gun control clearly have the upper hand. As long as that is the case, America will have to live with one of the world's worst murder records. The facts are grim. In the U.S., there are 9.7 murders...
...with their plan for an alliance with the Liberals, with whom they share the middle road between Conservative Prune Minister Margaret Thatcher's doctrinaire capitalism and the increasingly far-left leanings of the Labor Party. Britons like the alternative of a Liberal-Social Democrat coalition; in the latest Gallup poll that combination won an approval rating of 44%, which was 17 points ahead of either of the major parties...
...guaranteed, but, beyond a certain point, virtue cannot be enforced by law. The Moral Majority's platform-against abortion, ERA, busing, gay rights, sex education and SALT II; in favor of school prayer-does not always square with the opinions that most Americans have registered with Gallup and ABC/Harris. But the Moral Majority's wide attraction is a sign that large numbers of Americans are sick of a society in which so many standards of conduct have collapsed...
...more likely today than ever. Between the two energy scares of 1973 and 1979, America's dependence on oil imports actually climbed 25 per cent. And though imports have boomed, more than two of every five Americans still believe the U.S. is energy self-sufficient, according to a Gallup poll last winter...
...them. The Senate has passed a bill that would deprive the federal bench of the power to decide certain "voluntary" school-prayer cases, and backers hope that the rightward swing signaled by the Reagan victory will persuade the reluctant House to give the measure its blessing too. The latest Gallup poll indicates that 76% of Americans are willing to go even further and approve a constitutional amendment allowing school prayers...