Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time. Neither the flag nor the returns. "That flag decision," allowed political analyst Horace Busby, "shows that old Mr. Dooley ((Finley Peter Dunne's fictional Chicago bartender)) sometimes didn't know what he was talking about. This Supreme Court must not even read the newspapers." Busby plans to monitor the July 4th festivities across the nation. If the flag burners come out in force, there could be quite a political ruckus and possibly a constitutional amendment in less time than it takes to sing The Star-Spangled Banner...
...morning after the court had, with great heaving and sighing, delivered the flag decision, George Bush hit the Oval Office about 7:l5. He did not even want to hear about the state of the world from his CIA briefer until he had dealt with flag burning. In the three-minute walk from his apartment upstairs, he probably saw the flag in the Yellow Room or maybe the one in the Blue Room. Maybe he glanced down toward the Mall and spied the 50 flags at the base of the Washington Monument. If he missed all those flags, there...
...plane's horizontal stabilizers to illuminate the flag painted on its towering rudder. Wherever and whenever the President flies, the flag glows; the darker the night, the more spectacular the effect. That, in a way, is the history of the flag. It is not going to change, whatever the court...
NATION: The Supreme Court touches off a patriotic storm by upholding the right to burn the flag...
...week gave a much needed boost to the prosecution. Since the trial got under way three weeks ago, four key witnesses have recanted their pretrial testimony. Two of them admitted they had initially been swayed by hopes of sharing in the $7.5 million reward offered by the government. The court has been sharply criticized for agreeing to preconditions set by Lisbet Palme for her testimony, including a ban on tape recorders and television cameras. The prosecutors, whose case against Pettersson is built on circumstantial evidence, have yet to come up with a murder weapon or a motive...