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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...power and complete decontrol of oil prices; denounced the SALT II treaty as "fatally flawed" and demanded "military superiority" over the Soviets; urged the restoration of capital punishment; and appealed for the return of voluntary, nondenominational prayer in schools. All in all, said Platform Committee Chairman John Tower, the document represents "a rightward move" in keeping with the increasing conservatism...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher looked on pensively as her Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Humphrey Atkins, presented the long-awaited document to the House of Commons. The 16-page paper outlined an ambitious government plan for restoring self-government to Ulster after roughly eight years of direct rule by Westminster and a decade of sectarian violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Atkins guardedly insisted that the Thatcher government's initiative contained "grounds for some optimism. I detect that the leaders of the political parties really do want to find a way forward...
...document was thick and windy, roughly 40,000 words of predictably partisan rhetoric. There was a perfunctory apology: "After four years in office, we Democrats have not solved all America's problems." But as it emerged from a 158-member committee in Washington, the Democratic platform for the 1980 presidential election blamed most of the country's problems on Jimmy Carter's predecessors: "Eight years of Republican politics [that] left this nation weak, rudderless and divided." The Republicans were handily accused of causing inflation, unemployment, continued dependence on foreign oil and even the current recession...
...most part, the document reflected the views of Carter's partisans on the platform committee. Senator Edward Kennedy's forces, outnumbered by almost 2 to 1, were defeated on all their major platform goals, including a huge antirecession program to create 800,000 jobs...
...visit to his home town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic dialogue in 1976 by endorsing a document that, through his oversight, contained attacks on Israel. The most affable and approachable of the Vatican's top officials, he corresponded personally with more than 6,000 people, many of them young, who addressed their letters to him "Dear Sergio...