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...Horton case is being used to paint Dukakis with that most damaging ) liberal stereotype: soft on crime. George Bush has taken to citing his differences with the Governor by saying, "I don't like the idea of letting murderers out of jail." One G.O.P. strategist has proposed a bumper sticker reading, DUKAKIS TO RAPIST: HAVE A NICE WEEKEND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One That Got Away | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...levels reached their lowest point on record, 1,200 barges were stranded after they ran aground at Greenville, Miss. According to Michael Logue, spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, twice as many barges could become mired this week, creating the aquatic equivalent of a "traffic jam of semitrucks bumper to bumper from New Orleans to Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting, And Praying, for Rain | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Ordering drug offenders to register with the police, revoking their driver's licenses, marking their cars with bumper stickers. Requiring federally subsidized landlords to certify that their dwellings are drug free. These and other stringent proposals to combat the drug epidemic are under consideration by the National Drug Policy Board, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Less Than Zero Tolerance | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...laugh at each other! We're here to learn!" scolds the redhead. Silence. Then a few whispers in Zulu. "Heee, heee, haaa, haaa!" sings the teacher. More giggles. When class is finally dismissed, the kids clatter up a narrow staircase, whistling and ululating. The doors are plastered with bumper stickers: KIDS ZONE, BABYLAND BLVD, I LOVE MY BOYFRIEND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Children of Apartheid Meet Broadway | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Transitions | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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