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...heads the Justice Department's antitrust division, and one of Stanford Law's most eminent alumni, Justice William Rehnquist. He is clearly the court's most consistent and activist conservative, so his advice that O'Connor was the best woman for the court carried clout. When Goldwater weighed in, too, O'Connor's cause flourished...
...they? That raises an interesting Darwinian problem: Which group is stronger; which is fitter? The young who demonstrated their moral energy?as well as their social clout, often enough?by avoiding the draft, by staying in college or heading across to Canada? Or the so-called suckers who got caught in the draft? (Were they stupid? Patriotic? Defenseless?) Those suckers passed through a physical and moral test that the others (however principled their refusal) will never know...
...community-aid programs (the exact number will have to be fixed by House-Senate conference) into four "block grants" that states can, within broad limits, distribute any way they see fit. The move primarily is a step toward Reagan's philosophical goal of lessening Washington's clout in American society. But it is supposed to save money too; less will be allotted to the block grants than would have been spent on the programs separately...
...motives are really all that altruistic. Saudi Arabia has in the past urged the IMF to grant observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization, and critics of Saudi foreign policy like Middle East Scholar Rand Fishbein, of Johns Hopkins University, now fear that the Saudis will use their new clout within the fund to force IMF cooperation on the P.L.O. question...
Vacationers cash in on the dollar's new clout...