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...improper." Such logic may be true, but if it is used to determine what historical figure merits honor, then few would pass. It would certainly disqualify Roosevelt and Churchill, and Earl Warren, who shaped the internment in California. The founding fathers, who could have banned slavery but instead helped strengthen it, would also fail...
...domain of his Administration. Whatever his struggles and stumbles on the economy and social issues, the President had always managed to press his program for national defense with seemingly unassailable determination and confidence. Yet last week-in Congress, public opinion and international negotiations-it was precisely his efforts to strengthen and protect the nation's military security that were in trouble...
...that money should be linked to El Salvador's speeding the painfully slow process of bringing to trial the soldiers suspected of killing four churchwomen from the U.S. in 1980, Shultz objected. He said such an American insistence would "denigrate" the very judicial system the U.S. wants to strengthen...
Before the IRS can effectively crack down, however, it must strengthen its whole system for checking returns, a process that has belatedly begun. The IRS began automating 20 years ago, and civil libertarians originally expressed considerable concern that the tax authorities planned to establish a vast data bank that would sacrifice everyone's privacy to the demand of Big Brother. In fact, the IRS has had increasing difficulty in keeping up with its paperwork on the six aging IBM computers installed back then at the national processing center in Martinsburg, W. Va. It is replacing them this spring with...
...foreign troops" from Afghanistan and full respect for the country's "independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-aligned status." The document did not mention the Soviet Union by name. The other resolutions adopted unanimously included a series of economic proposals intended to promote greater regional cooperation and to strengthen the non-aligned countries' bargaining position with the developed world. The delegates came out strongly for nuclear disarmament, which they called "an issue of human survival," and rejected the use of atomic weapons under any circumstances...