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...stars plead on behalf of disease prevention, Catholic clerics inveigh against abortion, farmers in overalls ask for extended credit, Wall Street financiers extol the virtues of lower capital-gains taxes. No single group dominates. When the steel, auto and rubber industries saw the Reagan Administration as an opening to weaken the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the "Green Lobby," a coalition of environmental groups, was able to stop them...
Support for other protectionist bills appeared to weaken too. Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, a principal author (with Gephardt and Texas Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen) of the bill to impose a 25% tariff on goods from countries running especially large surpluses in trade with the U.S., has always acknowledged that the bill is likely to be rewritten in ways that he cannot foresee. Gephardt now is voicing hope that if the measure does pass in something like its present form, its targets will trim their trade surpluses enough to escape its provisions. But he admits, "I really...
...departure of Gramley and Partee could possibly weaken the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting resolve. The board during the past year has been divided into hawks, doves and owls. Gramley and Wallich were the hawks. They have been especially concerned about inflation and have occasionally voted for a more restrictive monetary policy than Volcker wanted. Martin, Seger and Rice have been doves, sometimes voting for faster money growth. Volcker and Partee were the owls in the center, favoring a moderate course. The appointment of Johnson and another Reagan loyalist might give the doves a stronger hand...
...essay, "Unite and Conquer," which appeared on the editorial page of The Crimson Friday, June 28, Joseph Kahn interprets the hijacking of TWA flight 847 as a "calculating, anti-Semitic" act designed to weaken U.S.-Israeli relations. Mr. Kahn urges that U.S. foreign policy must not be considered responsible for the incident and calls for "swift and severe" retaliation, presumably against the Lebanese Shiites as a group. I would like to offer another interpretation of the hijacking in light of certain facts about the recent history of Lebanon which Mr. Kahn seems to have ignored...
...three opinions appeared to weaken a major rule announced in the 1971 case of Lemon vs. Kurtzman. But in all the newest religion cases, the court forcefully reaffirmed its commitment to the Lemon test, which makes three demands on any religiously oriented legislation: that it have a secular purpose, that it neither advance nor inhibit religion and that it avoid "excessive entanglement" between government and religion. Justice Brennan's application of the test in the New York school case left officials in what dissenting Justice William Rehnquist called a "catch-22." City school officials argued that they took special care...