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...debate has been crystallized by the completion of a government-sponsored study that was initially dismissed as a small sop to Reagan's New Right constituency. After hearing testimony in half a dozen cities on topics ranging from sex with fish to baroque forms of bondage, making three field trips to porn shops like Mr. Peepers in Houston, and spending $500,000, the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography issued a two-volume, 1960-page report. In ceremoniously accepting it from Chairman Henry Hudson at a Justice Department news conference, Meese seemed both proud and sheepish as he stood before...
...chic. New York Financier Felix Rohatyn, who along with his wife Elizabeth has launched a small crusade against events that concentrate more on social glamour than helping worthy causes, is concerned that the pet charities of the New York rich, the favored museums and cultural institutions and hospitals, will sop up money that could be better used to help less fashionable but equally needy causes. "Why should a program for the homeless be allowed to disintegrate," he asks, "if at the same time large institutions with professional fund- raising staffs can raise huge amounts...
...OPEC go from a strategy of one-for-all to a free-for-all? The cartel's disintegration began in 1981, when prices started sliding because of worldwide overproduction, partly caused by consumption cutbacks in many oil- dependent nations. To sop up the surplus, OPEC imposed output limits on its members. But that only provided a chance for such new producers as Mexico and Britain to steal business from OPEC countries, whose market share consequently dropped from 63% in 1979 to 38% currently...
Reagan repaid Mulroney's hospitality in another way by offering the Prime Minister a sop on acid-rain pollution, which has long been a sore spot in U.S.-Canadian relations. Canadians charge that at least half the acid rain currently damaging their forests and destroying aquatic life in their lakes is caused by sulfur and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere by fossil- fuel-burning plants and smelters in the U.S. The Reagan Administration has maintained that the evidence against U.S. industry is incomplete...
...sop to the Pentagon, Haig had suggested a "two-phase" approach to START, with limits to be sought on war heads and launchers in the first phase, and on throw weight in a vaguely defined second phase. The State Department believed it had, in Burt's phrase, "neutralized the throw-weight boys...