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QUESTION 1 ON TOMORROW'S BALLOT is a vaguely worded and dangerous attempt to restrict access to safe abortions in Massachusetts. Supporters of the proposed amendment to the state constitution claim that it would only threaten public funding for abortions. If passed, however, the amendment will have much broader consequences than right-to-lifers have been willing to publicize...
...illicit acts. As Monterrey droned on, it became clear that more was at stake than the fate of Hasenfus, who was captured ferrying weapons to U.S.-backed contra rebels after Sandinista troops shot down an American ! Fairchild C-123K cargo plane over Nicaragua three weeks ago. The prosecution would attempt to try the U.S. Government itself for "Yanqui interventions" dating from the 1850s. Complained former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell, a member of Hasenfus' defense team: "He is an absolute pawn...
What is objectionable is not that the Right seeks power, but that it seeks it in and through the Supreme Court. All political groups and interests have a right to advocate a political agenda, elect candidates, and attempt to change government policy. The judiciary, however, is not the place for a coup d'etat...
...Meese's attempt to undermine the central role of judicial review does not come as a surprise. It fits in with a pattern of using his office to undermine Supreme Court decisions he disagrees with--for instance, those guaranteeing the rights of the accused and of the oppressed. There is no reason why everyone should agree with those decisions. But the fight against them can not be led from the office of the attorney general...
Cabot/ North, though, stifled Winthrop's two-point conversion attempt. "They tried to bulldoze it up the middle," Hayward said, "but our linebackers pushed them backwards...