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Republican Candidate Arlen Specter, 37, district attorney and onetime liberal Democrat, ran a cautious campaign. Heeding Pollster E. John Bucci, who gave him a 2-to-1 edge at the outset of the campaign, he fought a defensive battle to keep Tate from eroding that margin. Specter, who is Jewish, refused to take a stand on a bill that would divert $26 million in state cigarette taxes to Catholic schools, and Tate-tirelessly proclaiming his card-carrying membership in the city's 400,000-strong Catholic voting bloc-blew sanctified smoke rings around...
Moribund Measures. Congress did manage to shove through at the last minute a stopgap financing bill to forestall payless paydays for the District of Columbia government and five other agencies that were technically without funds because their appropriations had not been approved. In addition, the Senate Finance Committee cleared a bill to raise social security payments 15% across the board, bringing a little closer to action the benefit increases that the President pledged a year...
Aggressive Patrolling. At Loc Ninh, two enemy regiments that tried to overrun an Allied position and district town only nine miles from the Cambodian border failed disastrously despite their proximity to frontier safety (TIME, Nov. 10). By this week the Loc Ninh body count of North Vietnamese dead had grown to 926; U.S. intelligence estimated that perhaps half that many again had been dragged away for burial by their comrades, and that another 2,000 to 3,000 had been wounded. This high casualty rate (roughly 50%) for the two ill-fated Red regiments, who were ordered to take...
Arkansas law requires a minimum of six crewmen in both the operation and the switching of a freight train. It and similar laws in other states are the result of persuasive union lobbying, and have generally been upheld in the courts. But now, a three-judge U.S. District Court has struck down the Arkansas law in such a way as to put the others in jeopardy...
Primarily Political. Warren had a long career in public life before coming to the court. In all three major areas where the court has left its mark. Warren had previously taken opposite stands. During 23 years as deputy district attorney, then D.A. of Alameda County and attorney general of California, he was, as he puts it, "a hard prosecutor." As for civil rights, he outspokenly backed the infamous internment of all California residents with Japanese blood during World War II. Finally, as three-term Republican Governor, he vigorously expressed his opposition to a more representative reapportionment of voting districts...