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Political Action Committees (PACs) currently have a stranglehold on Congress. A determining factor in the 1980 Presidential election, PACs wield awesome power, capable not only of granting sizeable campaign contributions to House and Senate members but also of spending for or against a candidate independent of his official campaign committee...
...your article about prayer in public school [Oct. 4], I wonder if Americans want the Christian church to have so much control of their day-to-day lives. Here in Israel the ultrareligious have a stranglehold on the country, reaching into almost every aspect of our affairs. While prayer in the classroom looks harmless, I doubt if that is where the Moral Majority wants to stop...
...when infuriated secondary-school educators blamed the SAT stranglehold on admissions for hindering their students from going on to college, test-makers pointed out that it wasn't their fault but the schools' that students were graduating illiterate and scoring so embarrassingly low. The SAT only highlighted the problem...
These governments do not view the pipeline in the cold-war terms in which Reagan has framed it. Instead, they see the deal as providing a badly-needed energy supply to free them from the stranglehold of Arab oil, as well as stimulating their struggling economies by providing jobs. Many point to U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union as a parallel "marriage of convenience," they're justifiably angered at Reagan's hypocrisy in supporting a deal that he could just as easily have subjected to the boycott, and even having to trot out such arguments is odious to many...
Israel's blitz into Lebanon and its brutal stranglehold on Beirut have aroused doubt, controversy, criticism and apprehension in the U.S. and within Israel itself. But one side effect of the episode is likely to be received as good news in both Washington and Jerusalem. Whatever damage it has done to the long-term interests of the U.S. and Israel, the crisis already seems to have increased the isolation of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi...