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Almost simultaneously in Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese III asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 "Roe v. Wade" ruling legalizing abortions nationwide. Meese has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision that gave women the Constitutional right to end their own pregnancies...
...road proved, Gumbel and Pauley go together like bagels and cream cheese. Gumbel, who hosted NBC's professional football coverage before replacing Tom Brokaw on Today in 1982, has rapidly grown into an incisive interviewer adept at cutting through mushy answers. During an interview with Louisiana's slick Governor Edwin Edwards last month, for example, Gumbel kept sweeping away the politician's charming patter to discuss the impact of Edwards' recent indictment on conspiracy charges. For her part, Pauley displays a more empathetic style, laced with a self-deprecating wit, that works best when she is discussing topics of high...
...charge made last week by Attorney General Edwin Meese was that Hutton had used a sophisticated method of check kiting to avoid high interest rates. Kiting is a procedure in which two or more checking accounts are played off against each other to stay one step ahead of a bounced check. After overdrawing an account at one bank, a person or institution pays the overdraft by writing another check, which overdraws an account on another bank. With some quick moves, it is possible to stay just ahead of the bankers and in effect obtain an interest-free, short-term loan...
...unorthodox forms of organized crime. Authorities confiscated $2 million worth of illegal drugs during their investigation, including methamphetamines, cocaine and LSD. A similar multistate raid in February corralled about 90 members of a rival motorcycle gang, the Bandidos, on drug and weapons charges. Declared Attorney General Edwin Meese in announcing the operation: "Once again, we see the consummate value of the undercover technique in a particularly dangerous and difficult undertaking designed to penetrate and expose a major criminal enterprise...
...White House Chief of Staff brings the same cool efficiency to management. Largely at his urging, President Reagan last week consolidated his Cabinet councils, merging seven policymaking groups into two Cabinet-level agencies. Treasury Secretary James Baker will head one, advising the President on economic matters, while Attorney General Edwin Meese will be President Reagan's chief Cabinet adviser on domestic questions. Said the President of the change: "It will provide for added accountability and efficiency in formulating and implementing policy...