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They are much better today than they have been for a long time. When we had a dictatorship, our relations with the U.S. were, shall we say, "special." It could not have been particularly agreeable for the U.S. to deal with an authoritarian regime, but they considered it necessary from a geostrategic viewpoint. We have gone through a difficult period when we had to negotiate a new agreement on a different footing. The former regime ((of General Francisco Franco)) posed no problem for the U.S., but that comfortable relationship was lost. Now we have one of mutual acceptance and respect...
Nothing better illustrated the growing fear of a pro-choice voter backlash than the special session of the Florida legislature. Just days after the Supreme Court's Webster ruling, first-term Republican Governor Bob Martinez, a staunch pro-lifer, called the session to consider new antiabortion laws. In a state with a fast-growing G.O.P., it appeared to be a politically astute move...
...polls quickly showed that more than 60% of Floridians opposed further restrictions and that only 24% would vote for Martinez again. Even members of his own party, worried that an antiabortion label would hurt Republicans among suburban and women voters, began denouncing the special session as a costly waste of time. Just days before the session opened, Florida's supreme court ruled that abortion was protected by the state constitution, which contains a right-to-privacy clause approved by the voters in 1980. The court went on to overturn a state law requiring that parents be notified when their teenage...
COVER: Paralyzed by special interests and shortsightedness, the Government risks slipping into irrelevancy...
...SPECIAL REPORT: The environmental crisis is finally asserting itself as a major factor in world politics...