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After the case was argued before the Supreme Court this year, the textile manufacturers acquired a potent ally in President Reagan. In February, as part of his drive to deregulate U.S. industry, Reagan ordered a cost-benefit analysis of major Government rules. A month later his Secretary of Labor asked the Supreme Court not to decide the cotton-dust case because OSHA planned to reconsider the disputed standards...
...arguments have arisen because of Timerman's political impact. On U.S. television, he has criticized President Reagan's low-key human rights policy and the Administration's efforts to improve relations with Argentina's military dictatorship. Last month Timerman was a silent but nonetheless potent presence at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Reagan's nomination of Ernest W. Lefever as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Timerman, who has become an Israeli citizen, was not invited to testify at the confirmation hearings, but he had evidently become a symbol...
Doctors attack heart disease with new techniques and potent drugs...
...Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. Farther to the north, outside the airbase at Riyaq where Israeli Phantoms shot down two Syrian helicopters two weeks ago, another dozen were perched on newly dug mounds of earth. These were Syria's Soviet-made SA-6 missiles, one of the most potent antiaircraft weapons in the Syrian armory-and the potentially explosive epicenter of a dangerous new Middle East crisis...
...appearing to protect the aged, this administration has appropriated a potential weapon from the American left. While the aged have seldom voted as a cohesive interest group, sympathy for the elderly has been a potent political force before. In 1965, such sympathy lead to crucial support for the Medicare program and, in years since, for expansion of that and related programs. But today, as liberals ready themselves for fights over the allocation of Federal resources, they probably won't be able to find the same feeling in the nation. Congress has seen the "mandate" of November 1980, and doesn...