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...passed the bar exam only on his second try, yet Reagan promoted him twice more, to the California supreme court in 1972. As a justice, Clark was meticulous and efficient. Says a former law clerk: "He spent a lot of time streamlining the language in his opinions, to get rid of the 'thats' and 'whiches' and anything else superfluous." Clark, a family man with five children, loves the rural life. Preferring the bench to politics, he declined to join Reagan's presidential campaign team and turned down key jobs at Agriculture and the CIA before...
...however, is not about to endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, and realistically, Congress is not about to pass it. The people who are suggesting enterprise zones were elected with a mandate to change the New Deal approach to social services. The conservative plan may fail totally, and then we'll be rid of it, but as long as it has noble intentions--as this one seems to--it should be allowed to fail honestly...
...Ireland has no meaning to him, nor Poland, nor any other distant place except America, which has no particularly clear image for him either, other than that country where it is said one may be happy. His immediate wishes are sufficient; to get a bit more sleep, and to rid himself of the nightmare that the boatmaster will break out of jail and once again go for his head. Whatever else he thinks he does not say?sitting by himself in front of the television set, or pacing the walkway beside the fence, or facing the harbor full of boats...
...from his fellow Argentines, who are deeply cynical about the ability of the generals to govern. Galtieri will be the third military ruler, after Jorge Rafael Videla and Viola, since the 1976 coup that overthrew the government of Isabelita Perón and resulted in a bloody campaign to rid the country of leftist terrorists. The down-to-earth Galtieri, 55, is said to be well-liked in Washington and is expected to move swiftly to restore economic order to Argentina. But his stewardship of el proceso, as skeptics disparagingly call Argentina's agonizingly slow return to democracy, will...
...character, not our behavior to assassinate any person, Gaddafi said "It is the behavior of America, preparing to assassinate me, to poison my food. They tried many things to do this . . . you are a superpower. How are you afraid? America must get rid of this administration . . . as they did with Nixon, and elect another respectful President to get respect for America. . . He is silly, he is ignorant, . . . Reagan is liar." His interviewer in Tripoli, ABC's Lou Cioffi, asked Gaddafi what message he had for Reagan. "I would have to tell...