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The Springbok tour placed New Zealand's Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, 59, in a tough political dilemma. If he approved the South Africans' visit, he risked censure abroad as well as violent clashes at home between anti-apartheid groups and rugby diehards. But opposing the tour also carried...
For anyone afflicted with a sweet tooth, Government rulings in the past decade have been decidedly sour. First the Food & Drug Administration barred cyclamates because they might bring on bladder cancer. Then after saccharin was also linked to bladder cancer, the agency proposed banning that sweetener, an action averted only...
In a vote of the Arizona senate's judiciary committee the following year, O'Connor reportedly opposed a "right-to-life memorial" that called upon Congress to extend constitutional protection to unborn babies, except where the pregnant mother's life was at stake. Also in 1974, she...
In perhaps the most confusing decision of the term, the court struck down a San Diego ordinance banning billboards as an unconstitutional infringement of free speech because the law was too broad. In the process, however, seven Justices with differing views on the ordinance agreed that states and cities do...
Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who inherited the Wilson-Terpil problem in 1977, promptly fired two agents, Loomis and Weisenburger. Shackley's role is still being studied. Action against former agents is difficult because there is no law, or even a CIA regulation, banning them from selling their expertise...