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...dealing with foreign policy, will you rein in your National Security Adviser and leave the State Department preeminent...
...camp and thus end the feuding early. Both Carter and Reagan would certainly woo the Illinois congressman, as they would the electors them-selves, who, after all, are not forced by the Constitution to vote for the candidate they promised to support. (Many states have passed laws to rein in rebellious electors, but they do occasionally slip away.) a dramatic historic event which would result in change," says Edward C. Banfield, Markham Professor of Government and an expert on American political reform. "Apprehensions about the electoral college system that have existed, but not in a significant way, will be acted...
...Israel to accept the P.L.O. in Middle East negotiations, and increased political and economic cooperation within the European Community. At home, he recognizes some cracks that need caulking: disaffection among youth, drug abuse, growing resentment of immigrant workers. But first of all, he has repeatedly indicated, he wants to rein in welfare spending and improve military preparedness. - By Stephen Smith. Reported by Lee Griggs and B. William Mader/Bonn
Born Ranjung Rigpe Dorje in Eastern Tibet in 1924, the present Karmapa was discovered, in accordance with tradition, by a letter left by the previous Karmapa telling of the time and place of his rein-carnation...
When a government proves to function in a social vacuum, the process of putting it away is more of a problem. Short of war there are words of protest, but in the middle distance the assassin has free rein. The rein might be shortened considerably if the words of protest were harsher or more frequent, or, better still, if they were attached to an economic quarantine. To treat killer governments as pariahs would only be fair, after all, and the purpose of a quarantine is to prevent contagion. To date, however, the world seems to be going on the hope...