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...Sandinista regime. What happened there was a hijacking. The people of Nicaragua set out to get rid of a, certainly you could not call it a totalitarian government, but an authoritarian government: the Somoza dictatorship. The revolutionaries appealed to the Organization of American States and said, "Would you ask Somoza to step down so we can end the killing?" The OAS asked them, "What are your revolutionary goals?" They told them democracy, pluralistic society, free trade, freedom of religion. But among the revolutionaries there was an organization that had existed before the revolution--the Sandinistas, a Communist organization...
Neustadt described Reagan's commitments as strengthening defense, lowering taxes and getting rid of the social programs of the Great Society...
Weissman, chairman of the committee on investment responsibility, moves that the council get rid of the word "at" and insert a "the" in a clause that reads: "facilitate [the] dialogue that is at the essence of the university." The council then debates the merits of this amendment, and a counter-amendment is proposed: "that" should be changed to "which." The first amendment passes, while the opposition's amendment is mercilessly defeated...
Admittedly, there are cases--like the decision to cut across-the-board subsidies of school lunches--in which the Administration can see itself as getting rid of "fancy gimmicks. But, the gross inequities between military and education budgets, as well as dramatic disclosures in recent years of wasteful procurement and contract practices on the part of our armed forces, illustrate that cutting education funding in the name of "balancing the budget" is hardly more than a convenient excuse...
Nothing seemed immune to criticism during Gorbachev's speech. He declared, "The party will continue to get rid of all those who discredit the name of Communist." Gorbachev boasted that his self-proclaimed war against alcoholism is getting results. "Drunkenness has been elbowed out of factories, and there is less of it in public places," he said. Later, at an unusual news conference, Politburo Member Geidar Aliyev said that half of the state's retail trade revenue, worth about $446 billion a year, had come from alcohol. He claimed that reduced liquor sales had slashed that income by $66 billion...