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...doomsday scenario and save the filibuster because they recognized that the filibuster is needed to preserve the deliberative nature of the Senate; the filibuster rewards working across party lines, encourages politicians to reach out and try to convince the other side, and prevents a slim majority from running roughshod over the minority party...
Instead, Reagan announced, he wants to concentrate on an issue about which the Soviets are suspicious, combative and neuralgic--their sponsorship of client states in the Third World. For the U.S. it is a question of Moscow's riding roughshod over one of the fundamental understandings of détente. At their 1972 summit, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a declaration of principles that committed both sides to resist the temptation to "obtain unilateral advantage" over each other. But when the U.S.S.R. began moving into Africa in the mid-1970s--particularly into Ethiopia and Angola, which figured so prominently...
...than Arafat has been, but Palestinian politics is more dangerously fractured than ever after the passing of a national leader who stayed in power by navigating his way between many different and conflicting trends. Abbas is unlikely to be openly challenged, but nor will he be allowed to ride roughshod over the agendas of Hamas or the militant rank-and-file of Fatah, with which he has previously clashed. Abbas would most likely seek to revive his previous attempt, with Egyptian backing, to negotiate a "hudna" (cease-fire) among Palestinian factions - a process contemptuously dismissed by the Israeli leadership...
...because you had a judge who wasn’t strong and didn’t run a tight ship,” Guthrie says. But she says that Regina Quinlan, the judge in the Pring-Wilson trial, “doesn’t let media run roughshod over the proceedings...
MEANWHILE IN BRUSSELS... Wiped Off the Map The European Union is often accused of riding roughshod over the wishes of member states. But the latest edition of the E.U. statistical yearbook does away with part of an entire country. On the map on its front cover, Wales has vanished, replaced by nothing but the Irish Sea. Apologetic officials said they meant no offense. No word on whether the Irish Sea gets a seat in the European Parliament...