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...self-proclaimed libertarian socialist cited last spring's bombing of Libya by the U.S. "The American bombing of Libya was totally unprovoked," he said. At the time, the Reagan Administration said that it was retaliating for Libya's alleged bombing of a West German discotheque frequented by American servicemen...
Question 5, which returns the year-old law requiring seat belt use to the voters, is opposed through the libertarian argument that it intrudes on motorists' privacy and could set a dangerous precedent. Advocates cite a drop of 500 in the number of serious traffic injuries over the first four months after the seat belt ordinance took effect...
...Martin Feldstein in economics. "The critical mass of talent there is stunning," says Chancellor Joseph Duffey of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Faculty ideologies range from the Marxism of Historian John Womack to Galbraith's liberalist economics to the conservative political science of James Q. Wilson to the libertarian ruminations of Philosopher Robert Nozick. "This," says John Shattuck, vice president for government affairs, "is a very dynamic and chaotic institution...
Hyatt conceded he had some "libertarian leanings" and praised President Reagan, crediting his policies--not Dukakis'--with Massachusetts' low inflation rate...
...Jewish computer specialist, Shcharansky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1972, at a time when long pent-up yearnings for freedom and justice were coming into the open in the Soviet Union. As a genuine human- rights movement coalesced, Shcharansky was fired up by its libertarian ideals and began working with groups that were pressing for large-scale Jewish immigration to Israel. At the same time, he fell in love with a vividly beautiful girl in his Hebrew class, Natalya Stiglitz. After applying for visas to Israel, they married in a religious ceremony in 1974. Shcharansky...