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Answers are not as plentiful. It is not enough to say, as a New York State senator once said, "We want people to respect the flag, and if they will not respect it voluntarily, then we will make them respect it involuntarily." Toward that end, lawmakers might get useful guidance from the Alien and Sedition Acts. Passed in 1798, they were enforced in a way that made a crime of any idea, opinion, remark or act a judge disapproved of. One New Jersey man was arrested and fined $100 for saying he did not care if somebody fired a cannon...
Delta engineers and McDonnell Douglas say the extra tank inside the jet's horizontal stabilizer will better "trim" the plane in flight and is no more dangerous in the back of the plane than on the wing. "About all you'd get is a leak if an ((engine)) fragment went through that tank," claimed a McDonnell Douglas spokesman...
...join in "a government of national responsibility under the leadership of Lech Walesa." That same night Solidarity legislators and members of the two junior partners in the Communist alliance met. Said Walesa: "I want to help the reform wings of the Peasants' Party and the Democratic Party to get into government and answer the call of the times...
...demonstrate the political will, to make them. Old factories and unproductive coal mines must be closed, meaning the loss of thousands of jobs. The Communist-dominated bureaucracy and army need to be cut back. Most problematical of all, as Mazowiecki said, living conditions will have to get even worse if they are ever to get better...
...Warsaw Pact invasion that ended the country's brief liberalization -- an intervention that Poland's Sejm last week condemned. Said a Western diplomat in Budapest last week: "The hard-liners will point to Poland and say, 'That's where you finish up if you let the opposition get a foot in the door.' " In Hungary, where multiparty elections are due to be held soon, Geza Jeszenszky, a spokesman for the opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum, said the success of a Solidarity-led Polish government would probably "increase the confidence of the Hungarian voting public...