Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tenuous deal left Clinton well short of the 51 votes he needs to gain Senate approval. With the slim margin afforded by a 56-to-44 vote in the Senate, Democrats can afford to lose only six colleagues if they hope to save the measure. Already, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona have made it clear that they cannot support the President. Of the six other Democratic votes up for grabs, Clinton must win three. Louisiana's Bennett Johnston voted against the package in June, and the White House expects...
Tucker, 50 years old, blustery and heavyset, mans the front lines of America's abortion wars. In his Cadillac, usually littered with fast-food wrappers, he travels hundreds of miles each week back and forth across Mississippi and Alabama from one to another of three of the abortion clinics he owns. In a typical year he will perform nearly 7,000 abortions and will make about $200,000. Protesters jam his car's locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture...
...become a coequal -- and sometimes competitive -- path of inquiry. For some reason it has attracted more than its share of amateurs. In the early 1970s, "discoveries came at the pace of a raging prairie fire," writes Coe in his latest book, Breaking the Maya Code. Former University of South Alabama art teacher Linda Schele burst into the epigraphical world. On a 1970 visit to Mexico, she was mesmerized by the ruins at Palenque. Three years later, she was accomplished enough to collaborate with two others in a mind-boggling feat of decipherment: during a conference at modern Palenque, the trio...
...showdown in the U.S. Senate was just the most dramatic incident in a war against symbols that continues to haunt the South. The Confederate battle flag flew atop Alabama's capitol until a few months ago. Blacks in Mississippi are suing to remove the same emblem from their state flag. Georgia Governor Zell Miller's proposal to "purge the dark side of the Confederacy" -- again the battle emblem -- from that state flag failed earlier this year...
...does this given them exclusive rights to hold themselves up as defenders of the "sanctity of human life." We have yet to see any Winnebagos with Alabama plates bearing families of anti-abortionists past U.N. troop carriers near the besieged Bosnian town of Mostar. Yet when compared to the high-volume, state-of-the-art, blood-spattered Serbian killing machine, the unarmored Planned Parenthood is a bunch of amateurs. If these anti-abortionists truly cared about saving the largest number lives on the planet, they would have traded in their Bibles and K-Mart attire for guns and blue-helmeted...