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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will (justifiably) lose their emerging confidence in U.S. resolve. And the Administration's vehement opposition to the act signals the coming of a destructive constitutional clash with the legislative branch should the measure pass--which would be a time when such a confrontation could do U.S. foreign policy grave harm...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Difficult Problem, Easy Solution | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...bill of rights, then, would simply grant rights to the people which they already possessed. It would "contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted," Hamilton wrote, harping on the irony of the situation. Unfortunately, such double protection might do more harm than good, as Hamilton pointed out in The Federalist #84. "Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" he wrote. Such a declaration could only afford overzealous rulers "a colorable pretext to claim more [powers] than were granted...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Just as the Founders Feared | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...bellhop will talk + politics. Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon." 1959 was the year Sam was working for Jimmie Davis, who wrote You Are My Sunshine and whose motto was "I Never Done Nobody No Harm," and who won. Sam, at 29, was made vice chairman of the commerce and industry board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: We Got the Hook in 'Em Now, Bubba | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...enclose my body within a multiton metal capsule that was then elevated 10,000 feet above New York City. I did this with the hope that, somehow, it wouldn't fall before it got to London. All this at a time when Iranian Fundamentalists were vowing to wreak immeasurable harm on people of my national persuasion. How irksome...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Terrorism's Untapped Potential | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...records, which were "discovered" by Israeli officials last year. The documents sparked the controversy over the alleged participation in Nazi war crimes of Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. Secretary-General who is now President of Austria. Opponents of increased access argue that the archives contain unsubstantiated charges that could harm innocent people. Counters an Israeli diplomat at the U.N.: "Secrecy will hurt, not help, those who might be innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Fingering the Forgotten | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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