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...conference with the ten provincial premiers, he will face enormous difficulties in reaching a consensus. The stances of the various premiers are dictated by regional demands, and Trudeau will have to confront a host of competing interests. Amid a swirl of centrifugal forces, Quebec's referendum vote may will lessen its leverage; Levesque, the loser, will represent Quebec as long as he manages to cling to power. And he is under no obligation to call an election until late 1981. The winner of the plebiscite, Ryan, will wallow at home, powerless to forward his programs, for he remains merely leader...
More insidiously, the statistics-juggling and the dominance of business ideology have convinced many Americans of the bankruptcy of programs undertaken in the '60s to lessen economic and political injustice in America. The result is a narrowing of political alternatives for Americans. If the economic and political issues are defined for the American people in such a way as to discredit reform, then Americans will not address economic and political injustices...
...group of parents last night proposed an alternative racial balance plan for the Cambridge schools, in an attempt to "lessen the disruption" of school desegregation in the city...
...IMPERATIVE TO CONSERVE should be the paramount issue in the presidential campaign. American foreign policy has been shaped with eyebrows cocked toward the Persian Gulf, and the need to lessen dependence on foreign oil has emerged as unequivocal. Among the solutions suggested thus far, Rep. John B. Anderson's (R-I11.) proposal of a 50-cent gas tax coupled with a 50-per-cent cut in the Social Security tax appears the most rational...
...Says one expert: "The border between these two countries has never really been agreed upon, and the potential for increased conflict has dramatically heightened since the Soviet actions." U.S. officials hesitate to speculate about the effect on Iran, though there is some hope that the Soviets' intervention will lessen the Ayatullah Khomeini's strident anti-Americanism. Saudi Arabia and Iraq, meanwhile, both see the coup as an indirect threat to themselves...