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Missing from the speech was any sense that the Administration's touted reassessment of its South African policy had produced much of anything. That process began at a National Security Council meeting in June, after South Africa declared its current state of emergency, cracking down on dissent and the press. The President vented his frustration with the Administration's inability to articulate its South African policy. "I know what we're against," he said. "Can we state exactly what we're for down there?" But from the outset, there was the unshakable conviction that sanctions would only hurt those they...
...those practices is firmly rooted in Judeo-Christian moral and ethical standards," said Chief Justice Burger in concurring with Justice White's majority opinion. "Homosexual sodomy was a capital crime under Roman law . . ." The same line of argument could presumably be made to support slavery, and Justice Blackmun's dissent offered a spirited rebuke from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished...
Supporters of gay rights quite naturally criticize the court's decision, but there is a more fundamental point in Justice Blackmun's dissent. "A necessary corollary of giving individuals freedom to choose how to conduct their lives is acceptance of the fact that different individuals will make different choices," he wrote. "It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority." In this, Blackmun was echoing a famous argument by Holmes: "If there...
...year term, he can be removed from office only by Congress. That power of dismissal, wrote outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger in his final opinion for the court, means that the Comptroller General is "subservient" to Congress and cannot be entrusted with Executive powers. In a vigorous dissent, Justice Byron White criticized the majority's adherence to a "distressingly formalistic view of separation of powers" to derail "one of the most novel and far-reaching legislative responses to a national crisis since the New Deal...
...campaign to suppress dissent is unmatched since the Sandinistas took power in 1979. Two weeks ago, Roman Catholic Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, a critic of the regime, was forced into exile in Honduras. The move drew sharp criticism of the Sandinistas from Pope John Paul II during his pastoral visit to Colombia last week. The Pontiff delivered a speech declaring that he found Vega's expulsion a "nearly incredible act" that was reminiscent of the "dark ages," when priests in Latin America were persecuted. Vega, the second-ranking Catholic prelate in Nicaragua, was taken to the Honduran border by Sandinista...