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Though the movement has become widely known as the New Right, the resurgence of conservative American politics draws much of its strength from some familiar-if not downright old-fashioned-values. For the three-man team that reported this week's cover story on conservative Senator Jesse Helms, the assignment involved a return to familiar ground as well. Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce set out to reconstruct Helms' early political background by interviewing the Senator's friends and associates in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh and in Helms' boyhood home of Monroe. Boyce was well...
What was more, the hunger strikers contributed to Irish disenchantment last week by scuttling two overtures toward a possible settlement. First, they dismissed a three-man International Red Cross delegation as "pawns of the British."Then they refused a British offer to "clarify" Whitehall's position on possible steps to ameliorate their treatment unless the I.R.A.'s prison representative could attend the talks. The British could not accept this condition, since it might be seen as recognition of the I.R.A. command structure...
Presiding over this reign of terror was a three-man presidential council, which took power after Khomeini ousted Banisadr. The council's chief member, Supreme Court President Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, has gradually emerged as the strongest of the three, by virtue of his leadership of the clergy-controlled Islamic Republic Party (I.R.P.), the dominant political party in Iran. The other council members were Parliamentary Speaker Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, who has assumed Banisadr's presidential functions until the July elections, when an I.R.P. candidate is expected...
...meantime, a three-man parliamentary commission is to determine whether the P2 Lodge was indeed a secret organization and therefore illegal under the constitution. Some 520 other Masonic lodges exist legally in Italy; their membership lists are available to police on request. The authorities are moving slowly to establish a firm legal footing from which to deal with the ramifications of the Masonic affair. The political consequences are just beginning to be felt...
...three-man board that provides the President with regularly updated economic reports on which an Administration can base policy. While the Secretary of the Treasury or the Budget Director may have more staffers at his command, the CEA director traditionally has had a key role in shaping policy because he is the President's private consultant...