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...unbelievable that Senator Hart has been forced out of the race for the presidency of the U.S. because of a trifling indiscretion. Do Americans really insist that their leaders be models of sexual morality? What the world expects of a U.S. President is a dedication to bringing about nuclear sanity...
...more sweeping provision. Article I of the Constitution obliges the President to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." At the very least, that would seem to have required Reagan to launch a careful study of what was forbidden by Congress under the Boland amendment and to insist that his aides abide by the results. So far there is no evidence that any such review was ever undertaken...
...many store owners argue that they do everything they can to keep young customers from renting violent videos. Some keep offensive titles in a separate room, while others insist that parents specify on membership cards which films their children are allowed to take home. "It's really the parents' job to police what their kids watch," says Mark Hooper, video manager of a Sound Warehouse outlet in Memphis. "About all we can do is not stock titles that we know are going to cause trouble...
...least 850 maquiladoras employ 250,000 Mexicans at assembly work that was formerly done, by and large, by Americans. But U.S. businessmen insist that if the jobs did not go to Mexico, they would probably move across the Pacific. As it is, the U.S. has shared handsomely in the binational prosperity. A 1986 federal report said Mexican maquiladora workers spend about half their wages on the American side of the border. Local businessmen claim the industry is also supporting more than 800,000 jobs in factories, warehouses and other businesses...
West Germany has not had a census in 17 years, and officials insist they need current data for deciding such matters as tax allocation and the delineation of election districts. The census poses 33 questions, on topics ranging from a person's religious affiliation to whether he has a toilet in his home. The Greens argue that the census is an invasion of privacy and that officials will misuse the statistics. The government has struck back by bursting into the Greens' offices and seizing anticensus brochures...