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...embodied the movement. Lungern noted in subcommittee that "because we have disagreements it sometimes appears that the whole subject (of civil rights) is debated and we forget about the fact that we are all committed" to basic human rights. A holiday in honor of King Lungern added would reaffirm that committment...
Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said nothing new when he called South Africa's system of apartheid morally wrong [July 4]. But then he had the audacity to reaffirm the U.S. position of encouraging the Botha regime to make "small reforms" instead of advocating economic sanctions against the government of South Africa. If the Reagan Administration had any foresight, it would be devising a plan to put the U.S. on the side of those working to free South Africa from apartheid...
...distrust," wrote James Madison back in 1788, "so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form." Madison bet on that. Perhaps it is time to reaffirm the belief that there still is sufficient virtue among us for citizens to play a leading role in government...
...foreign policy planks favored by the left wing of his Labor Party. Those planks call for, among other policies, an end to Australia's military aid to Indonesia and resumption of aid to Viet Nam. Indeed, Hawke's main purpose in coming to Washington was clearly to reaffirm the close political and security links that have governed relations between the U.S. and Australia for decades. He also wanted to impress upon Reagan the extent to which Australia's recovery from its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression depends on U.S. economic policy. He apparently succeeded. Said...
...taken up the pen to reaffirm his commitment to at least one of those issues: in the spring 1983 edition of the Human Life Review, an eight-year-old conservative quarterly, Reagan's byline appears over a rambling but passionate pro-life article called "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation...