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There is room for optimism over the accession to power of Mikhail Gorbachev. He has never been directly linked to the shooting of the Pope.

□ Even after more than four years in office, the Reagan Administration still can’t bring some federal agencies under control. Senator Weicker and colleagues, for example, won’t confirm anyone with Reaganite views to the board of the Legal Services Corporation. So the LSC chugs right along, despite a record of grantee illegality and scandal that, as a new Cato Institute study demonstrates, makes back-alley Naples look as pure as Winnetka, Illinois. Over at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, deregulators have yet to gain a majority because the normally sound Senator Kasten has been blocking the appointment of conservatives. Come on, senators. Sure you have a right to advise and consent, but so do the voters.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The New York Times

There is room for optimism over the accession to power of Mikhail Gorbachev. He has never been directly linked to the shooting of the Pope.

□ Even after more than four years in office, the Reagan Administration still can’t bring some federal agencies under control. Senator Weicker and colleagues, for example, won’t confirm anyone with Reaganite views to the board of the Legal Services Corporation. So the LSC chugs right along, despite a record of grantee illegality and scandal that, as a new Cato Institute study demonstrates, makes back-alley Naples look as pure as Winnetka, Illinois. Over at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, deregulators have yet to gain a majority because the normally sound Senator Kasten has been blocking the appointment of conservatives. Come on, senators. Sure you have a right to advise and consent, but so do the voters.