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...prosecutors. Federal attorneys will be able to introduce evidence showing the police were predisposed to react with excessive force -- not just toward minorities but also toward anyone under arrest. In contrast to the earlier criminal case, moreover, federal prosecutors can examine the records of the defendants in other arrests, dig into their personnel files and even probe their conversations for evidence of prejudicial attitudes or a propensity toward brutality...
Fear that compromise is a slippery slope causes Congressional supporters of the Freedom of Choice Act to dig in their heels and insist that permitting any restrictions undercut the legitimacy of the right to choose...
...escape route from Washington fell to naval aide Edward Beach. His assignment was made all the more difficult given the grim prognosis for Washington should it be hit by a Soviet hydrogen bomb. "It would not eliminate the Potomac River," says Beach, "but it would sure raise hell and dig a deep hole where Washington had been. We would have a deep lake there, so shelters in Washington would have been counterproductive. Even if you survived the blast, you'd probably drown." So Beach and others pressed their imaginations for alternate escape plans...
...doomsday government story required Gup to dig even deeper. "I ate a lot of dust," he says, while sifting through reams of official archives. He unearthed documents about how Washington planned to protect the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. During the reporting, Ted thought frequently of his two toddler sons David and Matthew. "I pray that they won't have to grow up under a cloud of anxiety and that all of this will seem exotic and far away to them...
...midge; the English word mosquito, from the Spanish for "little fly," appeared in the 16th century, along with new and nastier New World species. In the 1880s the Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps, fresh from the triumph of building the Suez Canal, was utterly vanquished in his heroic effort to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, partly because thousands of the Europeans he brought with him fell victim to mosquito-borne disease...