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...your interview with Mr. Reagan, he says that "the Federal Government was created by the states." The Constitution does not proclaim "We the states," but, "We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution." While the Reagan thesis had its supporters in the early Republic, the question is generally presumed to have been settled at Appomattox...
Reagan is now leaning away from the advice of some aides that he proclaim a "national economic emergency" upon taking office. The words call up visions of the breadlines, waves of bank failures and threats of outright starvation that confronted Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took the oath of office in 1933. Nothing remotely that drastic menaces...
Though road signs outside Evanston still proclaim a population of 4,462, that figure has surely doubled since 1975; it will probably top 15,000 by 1985. Everything in Evanston is booming, partly because many roustabouts make $1,000 or more a week. Business is up 20% at J.C. Penney's, and it would be more than double that if the store had more space. It hopes to move to the new shopping center now being planned, the town's first. Neon lights blink NO VACANCY outside motels charging $35 a night, cash in advance. "Tourists...
...become fashionable in the U.S.A. to proclaim whole regions of the world as zones of "vital interests." Why can the simple truth not be understood: though the Soviet Union is far from proclaiming some regions as a zone of its vital interests, it cannot at the same time remain indifferent when on its borders, be it in the south, west or east, attempts are being made to create regimes hostile to it? Wfe have had some experience-a rather grim one at that-prior to World War II when there were efforts to create a so-called sanitary cordon around...
...Reagan pledge on which businessmen hope to see fast action is his vow to reduce Government regulation. He has already said he will scrap the failed Carter wage and price guidelines as soon as he takes office, and some expect him to proclaim a moratorium on the issuance of new rules by Washington's myriad regulatory agencies. Says W. Martin Dillon, chairman of Northwestern Steel and Wire Co. of Sterling, Ill.: "The biggest thing the Reagan Administration could do is just stay out of our hair...