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...reelection, much depends on what kind of conservative he chooses for the bench. A judicial conservative, believing in restraint, might not like the abortion decision, but he would regard it as binding precedent. A political conservative worries more about results than the judicial process and might not hesitate to disregard the findings of his predecessors. On Reagan's list of appointees, both types of conservatives can be found (see following story). If Reagan picks ideologues, says N.Y.U.'s Reiss, "God knows what could happen. They could overrule anything they didn't like. They could rewrite constitutional...
...enormities of apartheid, Harvard has gone beyond its normal practices by communicating directly with corporate officials to persuade them to alter their employment practices and by creating special scholarship programs for Black South Africans. But it is one thing to make efforts of this kind and quite another to disregard one of the University's basic principles, especially when such action is urged in pursuit of a strategy that no significant chance of affecting the course of events in South Africans...
...Moines sex club. Harkin has lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count the Republican out. For one thing, the influential Des Moines Register, which has hardly been a Jepsen sympathizer in the past, urged voters to disregard the sex-club peccadillo and focus on the issues...
...general diligence in outlining without a lot of cheerleading the basic ideas and personalities of most of the new batch of Democratic leaders and intellectuals. But he does get carried away. "Forget about Walter Mondale, ignore John Glenn, put Tip O'Neil out of your mind." Rothenberg froths. "Disregard the Democratic Party as you've known it. Whatever its fortunes in 1984, the old liberalism has already begun a slow, inexorable fate. The future belongs to the neoliberals." The prognosis inaccuracy is overshadowed only by its stupidity as political advice...
Kaplan wasn't amused and he has filed a $1 million libel suit against the magazine in federal court, charging it with printing false information with reckless disregard for the truth...