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...looked like a blacklist, it smelled like a blacklist,'' says Barry Lynn, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. ''If any letter has a chilling effect, this one froze people.'' The document in question is a letter that Attorney General Edwin Meese's Commission on Pornography mailed to 23 retailers last February saying that the panel had ''received testimony alleging that your company is involved in the sale or distribution of pornography.'' The letter also contained an ominous invitation: ''The Commission has determined that it would be appropriate to allow your company an opportunity to respond to the allegations...
...weeks. The impending tragedy had the makings of a front-page story, which it quickly became. With help from a family priest and a local right-to-life group, a press conference was arranged that brought instant national attention to Jesse's plight. ''We had an outrageous violation of civil rights here,'' charged Right-to-Life Spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan. The resulting outcry led Loma Linda to make a deal: if Jesse's parents surrendered custody to his grandparents, he would become eligible for surgery. Though Jesse ultimately got a heart, the hospital's initial rejection sparked a heated debate...
...charge, hold detainees without hearings for unlimited periods, search any home or office without warrant, ban meetings and impose press censorship. Police and troops were given authority to use whatever force they deem necessary to break up illegal gatherings, and cannot be taken to court in any criminal or civil prosecution for actions they take in ''good faith.'' The emergency powers are the most drastic yet in the government's effort to crush a black rebellion that in the past 21 months has taken more than 1,700 lives, almost all of them black. Colin Eglin, leader of the white...
...Justice) and we're going to reverse this abomination.'' Yet many pro-choicers were also happy with the decisions--particularly the Pennsylvania case, Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ''I'm absolutely elated,'' said Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Said American Civil Liberties Union Attorney Lynn Paltrow: ''What we have here is a majority that is clear about abortion rights and getting clearer about why abortion has to be protected by our Constitution.'' Some opinions were more qualified. ''We would have preferred a 7-to-2 decision,'' said Eve Paul, vice president...
...Dennis Levine insider-trading scandal, the worst in history. Paranoia swept the close-knit investment community a week after Levine, 33, a former managing director at the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of income tax evasion, securities fraud and perjury and settled a civil suit charging that he had made $12.6 million in illegal stock- market profits on corporate takeovers. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation was in full swing, along with criminal investigations by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. No official accusations were leveled, but Ira Lee Sorkin, the SEC's New York director, disclosed...