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...Keynsians are in agreement with conservative economists, including some of Reagan's staunchest supply-siders, such as Jude Wanniski. They fear that increasing taxes would only stifle private spending and decrease tax revenues, thereby increasing the deficit...
Attorney General Edwin Meese and Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott have been among Noriega's staunchest supporters. They cite his willingness this year to have Panama's bank-secrecy laws amended to allow U.S. investigators limited access to drug-money accounts. In an effort to scuttle a resolution critical of Panama's drug enforcement policies last March, Trott told a Senate committee, "The Panamanians have given ((the DEA)) 100% of its requests in terms of drug traffickers." An unlikely coalition led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms and Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry was nevertheless able to push the resolution through...
Although most feminists continue to embrace the amendment, the current call to battle has met with a mixed reaction. Many of the amendment's staunchest advocates are concerned that an ERA campaign now might unwisely divert energy from efforts to tackle such specific and pressing concerns as parental leave, child care and pay equity. "I don't think one amendment will address all these issues, although I think it would be very important to have," says veteran Feminist Betty Friedan. "It's necessary but not sufficient. I don't want to put all my eggs in that one basket." Many...
...critics admit that the lack of real comprehension is the greatest hindrance to Japanese musicians' acceptance in the West. Students too are often taught to emulate their sensei (teachers) rather than to think for themselves. Perhaps it is no contradiction that Saito's most flamboyant pupil is also his staunchest admirer...
Ronald Reagan is no longer the apple of our eye--or the sunshine of our life. Even his friends feel betrayed. "He will never again be the Reagan that he was before the blew it," Republican Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, one of the President's staunchest allies in the Congress, said the other day. "He is not going to regain our trust and faith easily...