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Orthodox rabbis already have wide civil powers. They approve all marriages, divorces and adoptions. Their political clout, moreover, grew during the Begin years. In order to win the support of Agudat Yisrael, the religious party that had four sometimes crucial seats in the Knesset, Begin made several concessions. He forbade El Al flights on the Sabbath, losing an estimated $30 million a year, and pushed through a law limiting autopsies, which violate Orthodox beliefs. Begin also agreed to push the highly controversial "Who is a Jew?" legislation, which would amend Israeli law to ensure that the only converts granted citizenship...
...convention than a serious final drive for the prize. He and his delegates would get their well-earned spotlight in the party's prime-time televised assembly. To abandon his bid for the nomination and withdraw his name completely from consideration at the convention would reduce his clout in shaping the party's platform and in working with Jackson to overhaul the delegate selection rules, which were shown to be unfair this year. "The 1,200 delegates he has now need a leader," said Connecticut Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a Hart supporter. "At the convention...
...said. "[If McLean affiliates,] it's going to make it easier for all of medicine to be swallowed up by the corporations. It doesn't really affect me because I'm at McLean, but it is going to affect the guy in Pocattella, Ind. who doesn't have the clout to say, 'let's affiliate, not be bought...
Once proud and powerful, American unions now seem hounded on all sides. Denounced as featherbedding outfits that help jack up prices, they have seen both their membership and their bargaining clout dwindle. Now, in What Do Unions Do? (Basic Books; 293 pages; $22.95) Harvard Economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff have come not to bury unions but to praise them. Their key finding: unions are good for society as a whole but bad for individual companies...
...Duarte's success in crushing the squads will hinge on how well he establishes his authority over the armed forces. No civilian in Salvadoran history has ever won control over the military, but Duarte's U.S. backing, from both the White House and Congress, gives him unprecedented clout. Duarte has promised to start rooting out the deadly henchmen by disbanding the treasury police, allegedly the most brutish of the security forces. Bringing the killers to justice, however, is another story. The saddest legacy of El Salvador's recent past may be how many have been cowed into...