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...issue, of course, was economic sanctions against South Africa, which 48 Commonwealth governments support but Thatcher has steadfastly opposed. She argues that sanctions would work hardship on millions of blacks in South Africa and neighboring countries while failing to destroy apartheid; she also feared the effect they might have on Britain's estimated $18 billion investment in South Africa and its $3 billion in annual trade with that country...
Gray agreed with the President that the nations surrounding South Africa might be hurt by sanctions, but he noted that they had issued a joint statement supporting sanctions "even if it means some hardship for their own nations and economies." Ultimately, Gray saw the President as having a moral double standard toward the oppressed: "The President has preached that the Reagan doctrine is to fight for freedom. Why is the doctrine being denied in Pretoria?" Other reaction on Capitol Hill ranged along a narrow spectrum from outrage to disappointment; virtually no one from either party came to the President...
...situation in order, the Government is allowing thousands of farmers to fail but is spending billions to boost foreign sales and prop up incomes for those who survive. Yet the adjustment process is a bitter one that promises hardship not only for farm families but for the thousands of already troubled farm-oriented businesses, including machinery builders, petrochemical companies, seed producers and the mom-and-pop shops that keep small rural towns alive...
Repealing the investment tax credit. Eliminating this program is a crucial ingredient of any tax-reform plan because it will save the Government almost $140 billion over the next five years. Yet it could cause hardship for capital-intensive businesses ranging from steelmakers to airlines, which have relied on the credits to help finance their investments in equipment. It represents a double whammy for companies that produce manufacturing equipment, because both they and their customers will lose the credits. Said Glenn Ekberg, president of Circle Boring, a machine-tool maker in Rockford, Ill.: "I'm surprised Congress has forgotten what...
...this with no small awareness of those whose efforts to live faithful to God's word and to their human personhood face enormous hardship: not only homosexual people but the many single, married and divorced men and women whose circumstances or conditions in life make it difficult if not impossible to experience the full sexual expression of human love. It is in these, as in other ways that we confront our incompleteness or woundedness as persons, that we turn to God and our community for another kind of love that we believe is more than, but never less than fully...