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...anything, Alexander's call for "a new branch of the armed services" to control illegal drugs and immigration is even more gimmicky. It's also not new. Senator Al D'Amato, the Republican from New York, led a similar charge in the mid-1980s, which the Reagan Administration rebuffed. Long-standing military tradition, codified in the Posse Comitatus Act after the Civil War, bars soldiers from actions that could spill over into arrests and seizures of U.S. citizens. Says Lawrence Korb, a former Reagan Assistant Defense Secretary: "We train them to vaporize, not Mirandize." Alexander says he knows this...
...syndicated column and establishing an afternoon radio show with liberal Tom Braden that eventually metamorphosed into CNN's Crossfire. Buchanan did his sparring in print and on the air, and in the new era of Shout TV, Pat delivered his blows without guilt or restraint. By the mid-1980s, Buchanan recalls, "I was hitting the long ball," earning as much as $800,000 a year...
...change in Cornell's play has to do with its new coach, Mike Schafer. A rugged player for the Big Red during the mid-1980s, Schafer has instilled a new mentality with his team...
Knowles said that by the mid-1980s, the number of nominees began to fall below the number of vacancies, so the Dean on a regular basis had to invite faculty members to stand for election...
...mid-1980s, that university was sued by a company claiming to have rights to a second technology, being developed at the university, that was licensed to a second company...