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Former President José Napoleón Duarte, who was a member of the junta that implemented the program with strong U.S. support in 1980, is also concerned that D'Aubuisson's backers may try to subvert it. If this should happen, Duarte told TIME last week, he will withdraw his Christian Democratic deputies from the new assembly, thereby denying it "legitimacy." Said he: "This country needs a change of structure. We have to use what few natural resources we have, along with our best natural resource-our people. We call this justice. The extreme right calls this...
...sees judges as specially charged, first, with purifying the political process--unblocking "stoppages," in his ling. Legislation that seems to subvert the principle of "one man, one vote" would warrant intense judicial scrutiny; so, for the matter, would government actions that limit political speech or assembly. Ely derives that role directly from the Constitution, which he contends is almost solely "about process"--and includes none of the "substantive values" that judges have sought to find...
...deficit shock felt on Wall Street and Capitol Hill. He said that unfounded fears about fiscal policy were partly to blame for the high interest rates that are the main cause of the current economic crisis. He tried to allay Wall Street worries that the Administration wants to subvert the Federal Reserve Board's policy of keeping a tight rein on the money supply, and thus refuel inflation. After a meeting with Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, Reagan used his press conference to call a halt to recent White House carping about the Reserve Board's independent stewardship...
...Commencement--opens Government professor Samuel Huntington's new book. "American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony." Delivering the traditional "English oration," law student Melvin E. Levine tried to explain the protests of the decade to the parents gathered in the Yard. Our activism, he said, is not an effort to "subvert institutions or an attempt to challenge values which have been affirmed for centuries...We are not conspiring to destroy America. We are attempting to do precisely the reverse: we are reaffirming the values which you have instilled in us and which you taught us to respect...
...reputations based on residents' interests. But in encouraging separatism, the College discourages the inter group contact that is the raison d'etre of intellectual diversity. Administrators maintain the preferential lottery largely in the name of the traditions that have grown up around individual Houses. In doing so, though, they subvert a broader tradition: what Epps calls President Lowell's "notion that people from different social classes were to rub shoulders together...