Reagan faces EPA probe fallout and low environmental ratings
A Harris poll shows 74 percent of adults view Reagan negatively on environmental cleanup and 68 percent on handling the EPA investigation. The survey, conducted March 17 20, also finds 54 percent following the probe closely while 46 percent see Democrats justified in accusing cover up and potential obstruction of justice by Reagan aides.
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William Ruckelshaus
Environmental Protection Agency
Reagan
EPA
Ronald Reagan
Harris
Congress
Public Opinion Clears EPA Criticism Under Reagan
The passage reports lukewarm voter support for Republican environmental enforcement and exposes Democratic charges that Clean Air and Clean Water Act violations were ignored. It notes a 55 to 32 percent split on ignoring enforcement, a 55 to 32 percent view that Superfund funds were wasted, and similar majorities on EPA staffing and party influence.
Assad's rise gives Syria leverage in Middle East politics
Assad, an Alawite leader who took power in 1970, has leveraged a web of alliances with the Soviet bloc, PLO radicals, and regional actors to position Syria as a crucial broker. He backs Khomeini in Iran Iraq conflicts, resists Israeli moves in Lebanon, and offers a calculated path to peace only as he extracts concessions. Washington pressure for rapid all or nothing deals risks undermining a patient, forceful negotiator.
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Israel
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Sadat
Camp David
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South Yemen
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Iran
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Amin Gemayel
Henry Kissinger
Moscow
Yasser Arafat
Arafat
Hussein
Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
Saudi Arabia
Gulf
Ayatollah
Washington
Six youths gain injunction over education aid for draft registration
In Minnesota federal court on March 9 six young men identified as John Doe Richard Roe Paul Poe Bradley Roe Carl Coe and Frank Foe won an injunction allowing them to receive federal student aid despite not registering for the Selective Service. Judge Donald D Alsop noted the act’s flaws while lawmakers Hayakawa and Solomon defended linking aid to registration and denying aid to nonregistrants.
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John Doe
Richard Roe
Paul Poe
Bradley Roe
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Frank Foe
U.S
Minnesota
Donald D. Alsop
Congress
J. Hayakawa
Senate
Gerald B. Solomon
R-N.y
House
Hayakawa
Solomon
Joan
Six Parasites and the Draft Registration Case
James J. Kilpatrick recounts how six individuals labeled as parasites faced court action over draft registration. Judge Alsop ruled the actions unconstitutional as bills of attainder and, on broader grounds, noted that willful failure to register could force self incrimination. The piece casts the defendants as beyond law and beneath contempt.
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