Word: governed
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...Later breaking with the I.R.P., he won a landslide presidential victory. Banisadr was also lucky enough to take office when Khomeini was suffering from a heart ailment; wary of anarchy, the Ayatullah had no choice but to build up the President as the only official with a mandate to govern. Says one insider of the clerical establishment: "Banisadr correctly read Khomeini's recognition of the fact that the clergy are incapable of running the country. But he tried in vain to use Khomeini's professed need for technocrats to gain real power...
...severely hinder any sort of progress toward resolving long-term dilemmas. Of course, much of the rhetoric spouted this week is bluster, and the delegate selection process tends naturally to send loyal hardliners as representatives to a convention. But beneath the bluster must be some indication that Reagan will govern effectively if elected, with an eye cocked to the wishes and interests of all Americans. And some signs that the moderate viewpoint will not be overlooked...
Justices Marshall, Stevens, William Brennan and Harry Blackmun wrote four separate dissenting opinions. But all agreed that the court majority was permitting Congress to deny poor women the constitutional right to an abortion, which the court itself had said all women possess. The Government, said Stevens, must govern impartially. He condemned the Hyde Amendment as "an unjustifiable, and indeed blatant, violation" of that duty...
...Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, president of the Supreme Court. Defending himself against his critics, Banisadr bitterly complained that he could "not fight on ten different fronts" and announced that he had given Khomeini a standing letter of resignation to act on whenever the Ayatullah sees fit. Says a senior government official: "Banisadr is trying in vain to convince Khomeini that he should allow him to govern. But Khomeini is suspicious of anyone who does not wear a turban...
Americans no longer learn much from either their history or their myth. Mussolini said: "It is not impossible to govern Italians. It is merely useless." The same thing may eventually be true of Americans. They have too much freedom; without discipline, without a sense of being responsible and useful in the world, their angers spill and slop like battery acids. They have no more justification for their endless social license than the breezes of their appetites, the whims in the glands. The psychological sense of sudden boundaries, all bets off, new rules to be made, stirs old American questions. LaFeber...