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...target of opportunity,'' says Patrick McGuigan of the right-leaning 721 Group. ''He's probably the most conservative of the pending crop'' of judicial nominations. In the Indiana senate, Manion co-sponsored legislation to permit public schools to post the Ten Commandments just two months after the Supreme Court had struck down a Kentucky law that required such posting. He sometimes appeared on a radio and TV show with his father Clarence, a former dean of the Notre Dame Law School and a leader of the extreme-right John Birch Society. The program gave him a chance to indicate, among...
...Robert Cynkar. ''There never was.'' Playboy's lawyer, Bruce Ennis, asserts that the commission's letter was drafted specifically to intimidate the magazine ''because it couldn't do so using the law.'' No jury has ever found Playboy to be legally obscene under the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court, although individual issues of its rival Penthouse have been ruled obscene. Meanwhile, in Maine, the drive against pornography ran into a political roadblock. Conservative activists had proposed a referendum that would have made the selling or promotion of obscene material a criminal offense. In the highly charged debate that raged...
...powers to make arrests without 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...
...that will live in infamy,'' declared TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, referring to the Supreme Court's reaffirmation last week of Roe vs. Wade. Citing Thomas Jefferson, the Republican presidential aspirant called the high court an ''unelected oligarchy'' and assailed the Justices as ''despots.'' Some 1,200 delegates to the National Right to Life Committee's convention in Denver applauded warmly. Then came New York's Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, a more conventional politician and a virtually certain candidate for the 1988 presidential nomination. Kemp took a broader view, shunning personal attacks on the Justices and appealing for ''not just...
...writes, ''took great pride in its separateness from ordinary black culture.'' It was Lena redivivus, including marriage to a white man--in this case Director Sidney Lumet, the ex-husband of Gloria Vanderbilt. Buckley admits that black history took place for her like news from another planet. The Supreme Court decision desegregating schools had less significance than a scene in Las Vegas featuring an infatuated Marlene Dietrich pursuing Frank Sinatra. The year Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, the teenage Gail was dancing at the Waldorf with Harry Belafonte. All along, Buckley chooses...