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Jackson likes to end speeches with the story of his grandmother, who took odds and ends of cloth ("not hardly fit to wipe your shoes with, some of them") and stitched them into a quilt that kept him warm as a child. Then, referring to different minorities or excluded parts of his audience, he tells farmers, or strikers, or Hispanics, that "you're right, but your patch ain't big enough." The minorities must unite to extend their influence. He does not reach the real conclusion of his parable -- that the white patch ain't big enough either; the majority...
...would like to negotiate not from the pre-1967 borders of Israel but from the map of the 1947 U N partition resolution. which leaves a much smaller Israel. Never mind that Palestinian notables rejected the U N plan in '47. preferring to let the Arab states attempt to wipe Israel out by war: never mind that precisely those Palestinian figures who recognize Israel in the first place are those the P.L.O rejects...
Short of a total turnaway from drug use in the U.S., none of these methods will by themselves wipe out the narcotics scourge. What is required is a campaign that combines all of them, pursued by every government in the hemisphere and adequately funded by the only country that can afford it, the U.S. Also needed is a more vigorous program of drug education and prevention in the country with the most abusers, the U.S. Though the drug traffickers seem to have the momentum to carry on, the forces of law-and-order are making some gains. U.S. military advisers...
...goal was to wipe out the deficit by 1992 -- a year ahead of the target in the latest version of the Gramm-Rudman law. The case for balancing the budget sooner rather than later is simple: the longer it takes, the more difficult it becomes, and the more costly the delay. During his terms, Reagan has amassed a higher deficit total ($1.25 trillion) than all previous Presidents combined. In the process, he and Congress have more than doubled the national debt, to $2.36 trillion. Meanwhile, interest on the debt has snowballed, threatening to bury the financial fortunes of generations...
...President who campaigned on a promise that he would wipe out the deficit by the end of his first term is now finishing his second term with that goal nowhere in sight. Why has he failed? The question prompted TIME' s Washington bureau to undertake an ambitious project: drafting its own long- term proposal for a balanced budget that would be feasible as well as fair...