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...balance of power in foreign affairs has always been a political rather than a legal creation, and the Congress is simply taking a more active political role. It now resents the fait accomplis of military intervention-as in the Dominican Republic-which it has felt compelled to rubber stamp. Most encouraging of all. Congress has been willing to use its ultimate prerogative, the power of the purse, to block expansion of the war into Thailand and Laos. The fear that foreign policy is being made at the Pentagon, implicit in the Senate's concern for Laos, indicates a new legislative...
...charged, that the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)-dominated national SMC deviously railroaded its programs through the convention by controlling the chair and thus the flow of debate, a la Richard Daley. "YSA jammed the conference with its local people." one furious RYM woman told me. "and had them rubber-stamp their liberal. Stalinist bullshit." But the chair, as far as I could see, was impeccably fair in its arbitration and magnificently cool in the face of disruptions. And the delegates who comprised the decisive majority were predominantly clean-for-Geners, not YSA hacks...
...four years now, King Moshoe shoe has been battling to improve his rubber-stamp status. Three years ago, he was committed to palace arrest by the Jonathan regime for inciting a revolt in which 13 Royalists were gunned down by the government's paramilitary police force...
Dealers complain that this practice is becoming a major threat to them, especially in a year when their sales become more sluggish each week. At the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Miami two weeks ago, more than 3,000 irate dealers put on buttons proclaiming "Stamp Out Subsidies"-and threatened legal action against the industry practice of making deep discounts for the rental companies. Last week in Automotive News, an advertisement sponsored by the Ford Dealer Alliance asserted in effect that ordinary car buyers were being overcharged so that automakers could sell to "privileged customers" at reduced prices. There...
...books and magazines, only the Bulletin has so far received the official bathroom seal of approval. The stamp does not reflect the political bias of Lamont, though, a student employee said. The magazines are placed there to keep undergraduates from writing on the walls...