Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Finally, if elected, Reagan will have to push his programs through a Congress that is bound to be highly skeptical-one in which Democrats will continue to control at least the House, unless Reagan wins by an unlikely landslide. Even some top Republicans have misgivings about Reagan's proposals. Says New York Representative Barber Conable, ranking Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee: "I regret that Reagan has hewn to the line on Kemp-Roth. I think that Congress would use Reagan's plan as a starting point, and do its own things...
...contacts with the Ayatullah Khomeini and thus blunt the anti-Americanism of the revolutionary regime. Writing in the fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Sullivan also claims that Brzezinski first scuttled a U.S. plan to mediate between Khomeini and the Iranian armed forces, then tried to organize by remote control an anti-Khomeini military coup, even after the Shah had fled the country...
...Carter Administration's initial response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan last December was largely rhetorical. In his State of the Union message in January, the President warned that "an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the U.S., and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force...
...government will table with the Sejm [parliament], within three months, a bill on the control of the press, publications and entertainment [as justified by the need] to protect state and economic secrets...
...Radio, TV and press should express a diversity of views and opinions. They should be subject to public control...