Which of the following is NOT a function of a political party?

One controversial action by President Bush following the September 11, 2001 attacks was

A. to secretly authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) to wiretap telephone calls into and out of the United States. B. to authorize the use of electroshock torture on suspected al Qaeda terrorists. C. to research plans to cancel the 2004 presidential elections in light of another terrorist attack. D. to detain United States citizens without trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. E. to unilaterally go to war with Iraq without receiving any kind of congressional approval.

A visitor returning to Malaysia after the Green Revolution would probably notice __________

a. little change in the villages as the indigenous people assert their right to self determination by retaining traditional ways b. visual changes resulting from the new prosperity, such as roads and new shops c. more health care facilities created to treat the increased occurrence of exhaustion among the peasant farmers who now must plant two crops of rice per year just to survive d. massive unemployment due to the lessened need for farm workers