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Akihito too took up his imperial duties. Dressed in a morning coat, he gave an audience to 243 government officials and their spouses. Speaking in ordinary Japanese rather than the stylized court language favored by his father at his accession, Akihito promised to follow Japan's 1947 democratic constitution...
...concessions on the Arab side but Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains adamant in refusing demands that his country withdraw from the disputed territories. "You have your own connections with the Israelis," Mubarak said. "We are trying hard with the Israelis, but we can't play in the court alone. You should find a way to tackle this problem of how to persuade the Israelis to move forward in the peace process...
After completing their medical-history forms, patients at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Ill., are asked an unusual question: Would they be willing to write a letter thanking the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices for the right to have an abortion? Few refuse. Says Lori, 30, a businesswoman who terminated her pregnancy there earlier this month: "It really makes me mad that they are trying to outlaw...
...months, proabortion advocates have been desperately trying to harness the anger of women like Lori. The reason: they fear that the high court, with its newly conservative majority, may tamper with the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Last week the court seemed to take a tentative step in that direction by announcing that it will hear Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. The case involves a 1986 Missouri abortion law that would have put a number of obstacles in the way of a woman seeking abortion...
Defenders of abortion rights have good reason to be concerned. Says Duke University Law Professor Walter Dellinger: "This is not a case that needs to be heard unless the court wants to review Roe v. Wade." Since the court's last major abortion ruling in 1986, Justice Lewis Powell, who was part of the pro-choice majority, has been replaced by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Choice advocates feel Kennedy would not have been appointed unless President Reagan believed he was willing to strike down Roe. The increasingly vocal right-to- life supporters, smelling possible victory for their cause, were delighted...