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Along the thoroughfare that adjoins Tiller's clinic, a dozen pro-lifers and half as many pro-choicers petition passersby with wrenching pictures and alarming slogans. Commuters honk to register their vote -- or throw cans, bottles and even bags of urine. Says Mayor Knight: "People who in my wildest dreams would never protest -- much less put themselves in a position to be arrested -- have done just that." The abortion debate has a way of inducing indignation even among the timid and indecisive. "I came out of the closet a week ago," says pro-choicer Paul Wilson, 75. "The silent majority...
...citizens, O'Connor and Vaughan have as much right as any pro-choicer to seek legislative endorsement of their views on public issues. (They are also entitled to ask Cuomo why he is so quiescent on abortion but so aggressive on another complex moral matter -- seven times vetoing bills that would bring back the state death penalty.) Still, some caveats are in order. One is that charity as well as justice should guide the hierarchs into correctly stating positions they condemn. Both O'Connor and Vaughan accused Cuomo of advocating "the right of a woman to kill a child...
...fact much of it consisted of offerings that had been put forward elsewhere, but there were also some choicer cuts. The President reiterated his proposal that the two nations wrap up the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva before the next summit -- which he suggested be held in Washington in June -- and sign an agreement to cut conventional forces in Europe by the end of 1990. Bush offered to end U.S. production of binary chemical weapons when other nations capable of producing chemical killers enter into an international convention banning them. That represents a change from the Administration's position...
...told, more than 10,000 constitutional amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789. If some of the choicer ones had been accepted, the U.S. would boast a President selected by lot from among the members of the Senate, and a Supreme Court whose members could be removed by popular vote. But only 33 proposals have won the necessary approval from two-thirds of both houses of Congress. And just 26 have passed the final hurdle of adoption by legislatures in three-quarters of the states. The last of them, lowering the voting age to 18, turns 18 itself...
McLeod said that Professor Frank E. Sander, chairman of the Law School Ad Board, told him in December that Charles Choicer, a member of the Harvard Corporation, had made allegations against McLeod for his involvement in the protest...