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Much to the dismay of the cadres of social conservatives and Moral Majoritarians who helped elect Ronald Reagan, the Administration insisted last year that the most prickly proposals on the New Right agenda, such as outlawing abortion and banning busing as a tool to desegregate schools, be put off while...
Abortion, an even more emotional is sue, will be the focus this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote on a constitutional amendment proposed by Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. The amendment, if passed by two-thirds of both houses and three-fourths of the states...
Allowing prayer in public schools, the item on the New Right list, has congressional support that is a mile wide but an inch deep. Most legislators say favor finding a way to reverse the Supreme Court decision that school prayers the constitutional separation of and state, but they have never...
Throughout the early 1970s, as Iran's importance as a U.S. ally grew, Washington remained generally confident about its ties with Tehran. "Iran-U.S. relations with the Shah are excellent," wrote U.S. Ambassador Richard Helms in 1974. But Helms also advised that embassy officials take "great care" in...
At the very least, busing should remain a potential remedy for judges, as advised by local school boards and officials. Certainly Congress can recommend to the courts that they use busing only as a last resort in desegregation cases. But as legal analysts like Archibald Cox, Loeb Professor of Law...