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Richards' Republican counterpart is New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, a moderate who has already stirred up the kind of trouble usually reserved for Democratic conventions. New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey has threatened a walkout during Kean's speech (Kean is against a constitutional ban on abortion) unless an antiabortion speaker is given equal time...
When the decision came down last week, however, the result was less clear cut. Four Justices -- Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall and Stevens -- ruled that the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids capital punishment for any offenders who committed their crimes before reaching 16. Three others -- Rehnquist, Scalia and White -- said the Constitution posed no such barrier. Justice Kennedy did not participate...
...decision was not a surprise. In a 1984 case involving the Jaycees and in a 1987 ruling involving the Rotary International, the Justices unanimously decided that states could use laws that ban discrimination in public accommodations to compel some private organizations to admit women. Similarly, the New York ordinance was written to apply to private clubs that are in some respects public. To be affected, they must have more than 400 members and regularly serve meals and obtain revenues from nonmembers "for the furtherance of trade or business." Four of the city's most prestigious men's clubs meet those...
Fire is an ever present danger. Lightning in the eastern Sierra Nevada has sparked more than 80 fires. In Wisconsin, where 87 fires charred 250 acres last week, the state has ordered a ban on all types of outdoor fires, including barbecues and cigarette smoking, in rural areas...
...point proposal. Among the suggestions: travel restrictions on convicted hooligans, further clampdowns on admission to matches at home, and the withdrawal of English national teams from Continental ) play, perhaps even from the 1990 World Cup in Rome. For its part the U.E.F.A. announced last week that the club competition ban against England would continue. The louts had bashed any argument that might have been made to end the proscription...