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...school, meanwhile, is recovering from a guerrilla war among some of its faculty. On one side stand old-liners who teach law as a pure discipline, without value colorations. Attacking them is a rebel cadre under the banner of Critical Legal Studies, a left-leaning doctrine that claims the law is no impartial instrument but serves principally, and in partisan fashion, to maintain the status quo in society. Beneath the spoken issues lies a suspicion that the law school may have become too inbred and is not as concerned with legal ethics as it should...
...affidavit, learned from his superiors "that the KGB regarded the Walker-Whitworth operation to be the most important . . . in the KGB's history." The Kremlin apparently agreed: one KGB officer was decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union, and two others received the Order of the Red Banner. The secrets learned from Whitworth and the Walkers, the affidavit quoted Yurchenko as saying, "enabled the KGB to decipher over 1 million (U.S. Navy) messages...
...party's mainstream that only a miracle could win him the 1988 presidential nomination, yet the candidates who have a realistic chance at that prize treat him gingerly, with a mixture of respect and fear. The reason: he might bring millions of new voters flocking to the party banner, but he might also cause them to rebel and in frustration shun the party...
Jackson promises to redouble that dilemma for the Democratic banner carrier in 1988. In speeches and interviews, he pours scorn on anyone who will move the party to the center. His particular target these days is the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate elected officials mostly from the South and West. Jackson sneers that its initials, D.L.C., stand for Democrats for the Leisure Class. It is composed, he says, of "Democrats who comb their hair to the left like Kennedy and move their policies to the right like Reagan...
...months, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had seemed ready for the obituary columns. The oil ministers of the 13-nation group, which once cowed energy-importing countries and commanded banner headlines with every pronouncement, had become a group of divided and argumentative men, powerless to halt a long slide in petroleum prices. Last week, though, OPEC suddenly sprang from its deathbed and caught the world's attention once again. After nine days of tense meetings in Geneva, the cartel adopted a plan to slash its daily oil production by some 17% in the hope of driving prices back...