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Meanwhile, in Congress, Secretary of State George Shultz offered no response when Representative Robert Torricelli (D.-New Jersey) told him during a hearing the U.S.-provided weapons were having a "dramatic" impact in Iran's favor in its war with Iraq...
...spoke louder than the policemen's protests. By a vote of 286 to 136, the House markedly weakened federal regulation of interstate gun trafficking, rewriting restrictions that had been passed in 1968 following the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. The outcome, said Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, was "a genuine disgrace. It's a classic example of the power of big money and a well-orchestrated campaign by a narrow interest...
Representative Torricelli said in his IOP address on national service that "the 1988 platform [of either party] will not bring back the Great Society." Nevertheless, the opponents of national service state that the Federal government should increase the nation's tax burden, increase spending on our schools, and increase incentives for military and public service. When political reality negates these possibilities for social justice, different and direct action must be undertaken to redress the grievances of America's disadvantaged. The continued presence of an American underclass, in spite of the dollars of the Great Society, attests to the fact that...
Nevertheless, such illustrious neo-liberals as Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) claim that the national service plan will instill American youth with necessary citizenship values, at the same time rejuvenating America's failing social commitment and bolstering her lackluster conventional forces. In one plan, outlined by Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) at the Kennedy School last month, all 18-year-old Americans will choose whether to serve in civil or military service. However, if a youth chooses civil service but has no necessary skills for social programs, such as the Peace Corps or Teacher Corps, he may be sent...
...Even in Torricelli's plan there is a danger of stratification. Because people choose civil or military service and will enter military service if they don't have the skills for the civil service they choose, this system has a chance to become just as stratified...