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...left, in particular, has waged its fight with an almost palpable sense of vengeance. Some liberals want to make up for their leadership's rather lax opposition to the promotion of William Rehnquist to Chief Justice and the appointment of conservative Antonin Scalia to the court last year. Moreover, with only 16 months remaining in the Reagan Administration, the Bork issue has become a device to galvanize and unify the disparate interest groups on the left. Neas is overseeing a "megacoalition" of prominent liberal organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P., Common Cause, People for the American Way, the National Organization for Women...
...children over the years, taking them practically anywhere, from foreign cities to local sites. The two recent accidents are the most serious we have ever experienced, and we still as yet haven't had one serious injury or fatality. This doesn't *** that we can afford to be lax about our driving policy, and we aren't. Nevertheless, our safety record points out that we do not suffer from the rampant mismanagement and irresponsibility Mr. Nordhaus would have you believe plagues...
...Reagan's famous management style so lax that his newly appointed National Security Adviser could feel free to run a highly sensitive covert operation without ever informing the President or any of his other top advisers? White House aides rejected the idea. The President, they said, was angry when he learned that Poindexter had authorized the diversion. Asserted Chief of Staff Howard Baker: "The President has said, 'I did not know it, and had I known about it, I would have stopped it.' That's the totality of it." Confronted with the White House statement, Poindexter calmly stuck...
...rule out a military crackdown, claiming that "hard-core leftists" were partly responsible for the current disorders. "It is best, if at all possible, not to use emergency measures," he said. "But I must exercise all the powers and responsibilities vested in me as President if national discipline becomes lax and social unrest is fomented...
Perhaps most important, security procedures have been tightened all over Europe. The airport in Athens, for example, now bristles with 1,200 security guards -- twice the previous number -- and many of them work undercover. France, once accused of lax attention toward the movements and activities of suspected terrorists, now requires all visitors to carry a visa. Cost: $15 for a three-year visa. The bureaucratic inconvenience of obtaining the document does not seem to be deterring tourists. The French consulate in Manhattan has been overwhelmed by a flood of some 2,000 applications a day and has opened a second...