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...USDA would come up with after four years of deliberation and food-industry lobbying, not to mention $2.4 million taxpayer dollars. The result is not so much a pyramid as a trapezoid, with a cute little staircase running up the side to represent exercise and a vertical striped color scheme that's about as useful as an amber terror alert...
Marcos' opponents immediately slammed the ploy as unconstitutional and threatened to challenge it before the Supreme Court. The scheme, said Jovito Salonga, a leader of the opposition Liberal Party, was "a masterpiece in absurdity." If they lose the court challenge, as is likely because Marcos has appointed all of the court's 14 justices, opposition leaders will have to decide whether to participate in the election or to boycott it. More realistically, oppositionists hope that a Supreme Court fight will give them more time to organize their political machinery. Twelve opposition parties agreed last June to unite around a single...
...deceased Leonid Brezhnev and the U.S. lifted the pipeline sanctions. But on March 8, 1983, Reagan reverted to his earlier themes, castigating the Soviet Union as "an evil empire." Soviet diplomats still refer bitterly to the speech. That same month the President proposed his Star Wars missile defense scheme, which has developed into a major element in U.S. strategic planning and a persistent obstacle to any new arms agreement...
Late last week British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald dared to gamble again, this time on a cautious scheme devised to provide the basis for an armistice, if not a settlement, in one of the world's most tenacious conflicts. After a year of discussions between British and Irish negotiators, the two leaders flew to an Anglo-Irish summit at the 188-year-old Hillsborough Castle, twelve miles to the south of Belfast. There they signed an agreement giving the Irish government an official voice in the running of Northern Ireland for the first time...
...applying the teachings of Vatican II. Peter Steinfels, editor of the U.S. journal Commonweal, says that among his colleagues "damage control is the most pertinent phrase" in synod talk. Father Simon E. Smith, former executive secretary of U.S. Jesuit Missions who is now working in Kenya, sees a Vatican scheme to "box in the spirit" of the council. This can be "thwarted only if the assembled bishops take their own agenda in hand," he says...