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...Judiciary Committee prepares to vote on Bork this Thursday -- a deadline it may miss owing to the length of much of the testimony -- Specter is the least predictable of the three fence-sitters. Bork lobbyists conceded last week that Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini may be "gone," likely to join six other Democrats considered certain to reject the judge. Forecasters think that Alabama's Howell Heflin will be the only Democrat on the panel to vote for Bork, joining five certain Republican supporters...
...sidestepped attempts to pin him down on what sort of discrimination might be "reasonable." Did the word cover mandatory disease testing or higher insurance rates for certain groups, based on statistical evidence? Bork cited separate toilet facilities as one example where sex discrimination was appropriate, prompting Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, an undecided member, to retort, "Isn't that a bogus argument? We're not talking about unisex toilets here. We're talking about fundamental rights that women for too, too long have not been provided...
Despite Bork's gruff but courteous style and ability to turn the hearings into a legal seminar, the "confirmation conversion" issue could keep him from winning Senate approval. The three swing men -- Republican Specter and Democrats DeConcini and Howell Heflin of Alabama -- expressed reservations about Bork's ever changing views. "There are those who raise the issue that your changing of your position," Heflin told Bork, "came only at a time when a carrot was being dangled before your eyes." Replied Bork: "I can assure you that that's not the way I operate...
...Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch. Later, when the issue reaches the Senate floor, Minority Leader Robert Dole will head the fight on Bork's behalf. The three key swing votes on the committee: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Last week DeConcini still did not know what to make of the controversial jurist. "I have read so much," he told TIME. "Sometimes he sounds like a moderate. At other times he seems -- well, his approach seems so odd. I think he and the nation are both entitled...
...undoing. When Secretary of State George Shultz testified on South Africa last summer, Biden's angry attack on Shultz left some viewers with an intemperate image of the Senator. As Biden concedes, "Exposure is good only if you do well, only if you appear knowledgeable and fair." Both Democrat DeConcini and Republican Hatch have warned somewhat hyperbolically that if Bork's opponents on the committee attack the judge too aggressively, it could spoil the Democrats' chances of regaining the White House...