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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...
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...
...Hazelwood's mind off his new role as America's Environmental Enemy No. 1. It will probably be 1990 before Exxon and the National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations. Not long ago, a businessman called Hazelwood to ask permission to market a novelty item called Ole Hazelwood -- a liquor bottle filled with oil and water...