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...electorate's message on specific issues remains harder to interpret, especially since Americans were voting on discrete state and local races and not one national contest. But on at least two issues--the economy and nuclear policy--some degree of consensus shone through...
Phrases like "legislate traditional morality back into American life" and "strip the courts of the power to interpret the Constitution" make my palms sweat. Just who do these guys think they...
Malin joins most observers, however, in detecting a much higher level of "aid anxiety," which may be more than usually active in making families "interpret the decision [to cut aid] as a personal one." But those noticing it far more are the admissions officers--who this year saw financial reasons cited by 45 percent of those turning down Harvard--and Hicks, who counsels those same prospective freshmen and their parents. Between confusion over new procedures and worry over long-term aid prospects, "there was never a point in the year where you felt everything had resolved itself," Hicks recalls...
...Israel: Israel considers itself in a state of war with Iraq. We have not carried out a military action against Israel since the 1973 war. Yet when we became involved in the war with Iran, Israel came and stabbed us in the back. How can we interpret the Israeli strike against Iraq's nuclear reactor last summer except as an act of war? You should not let the Israelis be so arrogant. If President Reagan were here, I would tell him very precisely not to use the Israeli club. You must not exaggerate the strength of Israel. You must...
...Security Council resolution condemning Israel (the U.S. has vetoed such resolutions to date) and finally cutting off arms aid that Israel needs. The hard-liners were moved by shock at the civilian casualties caused by the Israeli invasion and also by fear that the Arab world would interpret American silence as a sign that the U.S. agrees with, and may even have helped to instigate, the violence...