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If the wrong is obvious, the ways to right it are not. Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming, among others, strongly objected to the $20,000 payments: "Honor doesn't come with a dollar sign on it, and you don't buy it back." The objection is disingenuous, since Wallop thinks...
Reagan said he agreed with that principle. His main objection to the Restoration Act was that it contained ambiguous language that could be interpreted to allow federal dictation to small businesses and even churches and synagogues. Some foes of the bill took up the cry and unloosed a barrage of...
In three days of discussions with Shultz and President Reagan, Shamir focused his objections on the international conference, at which he feels Israel would be outnumbered by its adversaries. Shamir repeated his past offer to negotiate directly with Jordan's King Hussein under U.S.-Soviet auspices. By dwelling on the...
However that sounded, Gorbachev was by no means washing his hands of Najib. Said a Pentagon analyst: "It is somewhat naive to think that the Soviets will withdraw and leave a Communist regime to collapse." Sure enough, Moscow last week pressed Islamabad to drop its objection to dealing with Najib...
By now you have likely received several letters complaining of Eric A. Morris's piece, "Where the Old People Bake Their Brains." This is another such letter, although I would like to clarify my objection, which is for the most part an esthetic one.