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...sunny side of 20" seats lost. Such a result would not be much worse than the party in power traditionally fares in first-term off-year elections, and would represent neither a rejection nor a reaffirmation of Reagan's policies. But even such modest losses would jeopardize the tenuous coalition that allowed Reagan to win victories for his tax and social-spending cuts. It would provide the Democrats with their goal of a "midcourse correction" to curb what they view as the more radical aspects of Reagan's programs...
...rally itself suffered from too many speakers pontificating on too wide a variety of problems. The issue at hand was draft registration. Yet people managed to address--albeit eloquently--problems like. South Africa, Central America, and Lebanon. In trying to strengthen the argument against draft registration by evoking tenuous links to other dilemmas, speakers diluted the main gist of the protest...
...forced every citizen, "not just filmakers but writers, photographers, singers, who were not involved, to take positions." Cero al Izquierda's position earned it the trust of FMLA leaders, whose "liberated zone" of Morazan remains in constant danger of attack from the government. This danger, and the tenuous position of the guerillas even in their own stronghold, is woven throughout the second, feature-length film. Decision To Win--The First Fruits...
...this homey and tenuous network tore apart, and the town with it, when the new owner, the Oxford County Telephone & Telegraph Co., announced it was replacing crank with dial. Before you could say d.a., a "Don't Yank the Crank" committee was formed. T shirts displaying that motto went on sale in Brad Hooper's village store. There were town meetings and more town meetings. Lawyers were hired, and briefs got filed with the public utilities commission to prevent the conversion to dial, and even void the sale...
Reagan adopted the view that challenging Israel too harshly would sacrifice what remains of America's influence over its prickly ally. "Our relationship is our strongest leverage," says an official. Severing this tenuous bond by cutting off weapons or recalling Habib "would give the Israelis a carte blanche to go into West Beirut," says one of Reagan's senior advisers. It was agreed, however, that the U.S. should vote for a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel if the measure could be modified to include references to the need for P.L.O. restraint, and if the mention of sanctions...