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...United States Commission on Civil Rights, as it is constituted now, is now moving toward the dismantling of federal protection of minority rights guaranteed by the Constitution. As Ralph Ness, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights--a coalition of 160 minority groups--puts it. "Rather than having effective remedies to eliminate discrimination, we're going to move to "remedies" skin to separate but equal with this Commission...
...impression was one of smooth ness, earnest professionalism, clarity of purpose. Would that U.S. foreign policy were nearly so confident and focused. In fact, the politicking that led to McFarlane's appointment made it clear that the officials who shape foreign policy are divided by chronic personal and ideological disputes. Those rifts have reappeared, diverting the principals' energies at a particularly volatile, complicated moment for U.S. interests abroad. Lebanon is threatening to explode again in the wake of the devastating attack on U.S. Marines. Combat is also intensifying in Central America, drawing the U.S. more deeply into local...
Britons knew last week that war's psychoses were receding fast: from Scotland came reports that the Loch Ness monster has been seen again...
...freed Quinonez, the wife of a former Salvadoran ambassador, who had been kidnaped from her home in Florida a week earlier. "I was flabbergasted," she said, praising the FBI's flawless rescue, which was executed before any ransom was paid. "It was just like watching TV, like Eliot Ness...
...purpose to fly mountains, to sow petalscent. . . to glorify glory, to love with love." His bride answered: "We hereby commit ourselves to a serenity more flamboyant and more foolish than a petalfall of Magnolia." And the bridegroom came back thus: "This is the purest double helix of our us-ness...