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...thing," Dole says of his appearance before a New Hampshire gun owners' group, at which then Republican Candidate John Anderson was booed. "What I should have done, at least someone should have done it, was to get up and reprimand them for their treatment of Anderson. They were outright rude to Anderson because he had a different view . . . I resented, after I left, that sort of quizzing in public, trying to lock us in on every little detail that the National Rifle Association might promote. The right-to-life groups are pretty much the same. You have to take...
...majority of dry legalistic reasoning that ignores the real world in which poor women live. Marshall listed some of the alternatives open to an indigent woman who must pay for an abortion herself: "not paying rent or utility bills, pawning household goods, diverting food and clothing money" and even outright theft...
...concerned with their own survival and advancement. To that end, they all plug into "survival networks," exchanging favors to ensure that they will stay in power no matter what work they do or fail to do. Usually nothing so crass as a quid pro quo is involved, much less outright bribery, just an atmosphere of mutual backscratching...
...monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, across the Grand Canal from the Doge's Palace, the Europeans spent several hours deliberating their Middle East policy statement. Giscard, who had long been out in front in favor of Palestinian self-determination, wanted the statement to call for outright "participation" of the P.L.O. in negotiations. In the end, faced with opposition from Denmark and The Netherlands and, most of all, by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he conceded that such wording was premature; the conferees agreed to use the less provocative term "associate...
...reciprocal hostility has mounted, youthful Jewish settlers often roam among the Arab districts, smashing windows and slashing tires, even invading Arab homes and beating up their occupants. The nationalists have also acquired disproportionate political power and independence within Israel, to the point that some observers fear an outright insurrection might be possible if, for instance, an Israeli government were to try to remove the settlements...