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...just a clam. Right at the start, the Senate Intelligence Committee censured Casey, a lawyer and venture capitalist in private life, for failing to disclose during his confirmation hearings more than $250,000 in investment assets and nearly $500,000 in personal liabilities. Questions about his finances persist to this day: the Internal Revenue Service is scrutinizing his involvement in a tax-shelter scheme...
...part of undemocratic governments has been, and remains, the greatest danger to peace in this century. The cacophonous self-criticism of the democracies and the unwavering insistence of their people that peace must be the paramount goal of their elected governments are signs of great strength, but autocrats persist in mistaking them for signs of weakness. The British demonstrated that a free people have not only kept a sinewy grip on the values they seem to take for granted but are willing to fight for them, and to fight supremely well against considerable odds. The cost was great...
Taking the floor after the vote, North Carolina's conservative Republican Jesse Helms exclaimed, "Mr. President, we have just begun to fight!" Most Senators, however, wandered out of the chamber, apparently relieved that the voting was behind them. The controversy may persist, but the issue in the Senate and House is dead, at least for this year. If the President is reelected, the school-prayer amendment will most likely be resurrected. Said Reagan last week: "Our struggle will...
...police persist in arresting people for a crime that is widely viewed as victimless and rarely punished by more than a fine? Captain Joseph Craparotta, supervisor of the New Jersey narcotics bureau, answers, "We do not distinguish among drugs. We do our jobs." Indeed, many narcotics officers in states that do differentiate between hard and soft drugs wish the law did not. Sergeant Eugene Rudolph of the Los Angeles County sheriffs office complains that in his jurisdiction, marijuana is "almost as accepted as alcohol," and believes that "marijuana should be dealt with more harshly." He can take heart...
Still, the tribes persist--283 of them at last count--and it can be said that in some respects they thrive. At the turn-of-the-century the U.S. Indian population was under 300,000; today it is 1.4 million and climbing. Do the tribes know some thing we don't? Do they have something to teach Mr. Reagan--not, to be sure, about getting ahead in the world, but perhaps aboutnot getting ahead? Is it possible that life is more fruitfully lived in the Indians' circular way (the turning of the earth) than in our accustomed linear fashion (onward...