Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says who? Why the Justices' very own colleague Harry Blackmun. It was not the first time the outspoken Nixon appointee chose to ignore custom by critiquing the court. While Blackmun, 79, had some favorable remarks at a judicial conference in St. Louis, he outdid himself with sharp words about individual Justices. What especially seems to upset Blackmun, however, is the tendency of President Reagan's appointees to vote as a conservative bloc. "All the appointees of the present Administration are voting one way," he complained. "When I started, we tried to just be good judges...
...emerge. CBS News's Susan Zirinsky may not have those physical characteristics (she stands 5 ft. 1 1/2 in. in her sneakers), but she's got the rest down cold. In fact, when Film Director James Brooks needed a model for Holly Hunter's role in Broadcast News, he chose the 36-year-old dynamo. Last week Zirinsky was -- where else? -- in the heat of the action down on the Democratic Convention floor plotting stories, gathering information and arranging interviews with Correspondent Ed Bradley. A night in the real life of a floor producer...
...accidental U.S. downing of an Iranian Airbus on July 3, with the loss of 290 lives, may have figured indirectly in Iran's policy switch. For one thing, Tehran chose to protest the incident by sending its Foreign Minister before the U.N. Security Council, a forum that it had assiduously avoided since Resolution 598 was passed over its objections last July. For another, the shootdown gave relatively moderate political figures a chance to argue the futility of continuing a war that, they insisted, the U.S. would never permit Iraq to lose. That line of reasoning had emerged on previous occasions...
...Southern strategy got its first start when Dukakis chose Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate. Was it a good choice? So far, it seems to have been a good move...
...mistake a "doozy," and returned the money. The episode did not cramp his fund-raising ability: he has raised over $5 million for his 1988 Senate campaign. It did, however, give Bentsen a bit more caution, which is the one trait he seems to share with the man who chose him to run for Vice President...