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...Roosevelt and Johnston have their way, that's how the district will remain. But they are faced with staunch opposition from a large field of candidates. Many of them have been campaigning since O'Neill announced his retirement over a year ago and who plan to spend upwards of a million dollars between now and the election...
Volcker's rejection of the job was the latest sign of his staunch independence of the White House. Time and again he has refused to bow to Administration complaints that the Federal Reserve should ease monetary policy and reduce interest rates. Some political experts think the World Bank offer was a White House ploy to move Volcker aside before the 1986 congressional elections, but the chairman's turndown is a strong indication that he intends to head the Federal Reserve until his term ends...
...even as the President basked in domestic approval, shock waves from the Achille Lauro incident rippled through a world once again shown to be vulnerable, in messy and unpredictable ways, to the instability that terrorism seeks to sow. In Italy, the coalition government of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, a staunch U.S. ally, suddenly collapsed in an imbroglio triggered by the EgyptAir interception. In Cairo, university students poured into the crowded streets, burning American flags and chanting anti-U.S. slogans, while President Mubarak voiced his own sense of pain and humiliation over the incident. As Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
Since it was formed as the judicial arm of the fledgling United Nations 40 years ago, the World Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, has received staunch support from the U.S. But when the 15-judge panel in the Hague agreed last November to hear charges from Nicaragua that the Reagan Administration was directing and supplying the anti-Sandinista contra rebels, the U.S. insisted that such conflicts were beyond the court's authority. Last week, as the judges were deliberating over the Sandinista case without U.S. participation, Washington's complaints about "political abuse" of the ICJ came...
...staunch supporter of the recently developed philosophy of New Federalism, Edwards believes states and local governments should pick up some of the tab for the social programs Americans desire...