Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court, embarking on a term laced with controversial issues, said yesterday it will decide whether police nationwide may use sobriety checkpoints in trying to curb drunken drivers...
...case accepted by the court, which poses the question of whether police officers may use checkpoints to spot drunken drivers, presents the latest test of strength for the Court's newly solidified conservative majority...
...such checkpoint, Michigan state policetroopers checked 126 vehicles in less than an hourand detained two drivers for sobriety field tests.One driver was arrested on drunken-drivingcharges...
...defending the checkpoint program, MichiganAttorney General Frank Kelley told the justicesthat fighting drunken driving is a "grave andlegitimate public interest...
That's only the official story though. We'll soon find out that the suitcase contained a photo of a drunken Bush making bunny ears behind the statue of John Harvard after a Harvard-Yale game in the 1940s. Bush wanted to dispose of the photo because he thought people might accuse him of "desecrating a national symbol," which could hamper the chances of his flag-burning amendment...