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Some Catholics, left behind in this outpouring of new energies on what was considered "their" issue, seem to be running to catch up. Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of Newburgh, N.Y., has gone to jail with Operation Rescue, and Cavanaugh-O'Keefe claims other bishops are considering that step. The threat of increasingly harsh penalties for sit-ins, especially under the suspect RICO anti-racketeering statute, brings out more defiant rhetoric from the pro- lifers. Some leaders have sold their homes and disposed of other property to live in imitation of Andrews, who gave up her worldly goods to pursue...
...April 5, Viet Nam finally announced that it would pull its troops out of Kampuchea by the end of September, leaving behind a pro-Hanoi regime. The decision presented the Bush Administration with a chance to turn, unambiguously, to preventing the Khmer Rouge from moving into power. Instead, the Administration is now giving priority to bringing down the Communist regime that the Vietnamese installed in Phnom Penh -- though that regime seems to be rebuilding the country...
...furor reached a peak on Saturday. As many as 150,000 students and other activists massed in Tiananmen for one of China's biggest demonstrations since the Communist revolution in 1949. As the nation's top leaders filed into the Great Hall for Hu's memorial service behind a wall of 8,000 Chinese troops, the protesters waved their fists and chanted, "Long live freedom!" and "Down with dictatorship!" Some of the leaders seemed to stop momentarily to listen to the shouts. In Xian, to the northwest, the demonstrations turned into a riot as students burned 20 houses and injured...
...November the Justice Department surprised many people by jumping into the Webster case to propose that the Supreme Court use the occasion to reverse Roe. While a reversal cannot be ruled out, few court watchers expect it just now. Supreme Court Justices usually prefer to muster a sizable majority behind highly controversial decisions, as they did in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the pivotal -- and unanimous -- 1954 school-desegregation case...
...FORGOTTEN (USA, April 26, 9 p.m.). Six Viet Nam POWs, released 17 years after the war's end, discover that sinister Government forces were behind their capture. Steve Railsback, Stacy Keach and Keith Carradine co-star in this thriller, the USA cable network's first venture into made-for-TV moviedom...