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...looked like a blacklist, it smelled like a blacklist,'' says Barry Lynn, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. ''If any letter has a chilling effect, this one froze people.'' The document in question is a letter that Attorney General Edwin Meese's Commission on Pornography mailed to 23 retailers last February saying that the panel had ''received testimony alleging that your company is involved in the sale or distribution of pornography.'' The letter also contained an ominous invitation: ''The Commission has determined that it would be appropriate to allow your company an opportunity to respond to the allegations...
...whole, not of every city and person in it, but the defense of America's capacity to retaliate.'' Thus he saw a more realistic mission for a space-based defense system: guarding ''our critical defense installations, ballistic missiles, command and control facilities.'' He added that ''a 50% effective defense could make a significant and I think vital stabilizing contribution.'' Later at the conference, when Arms-Control Adviser Paul Nitze was informed of Perle's statements, he expressed surprise. ''I know for a fact,'' said Nitze, ''that it is contrary to the White House view of the matter. Maybe...
...issues have divided the nation as sharply in the past 13 years as Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision affirming women's constitutional right to abortion. Last week it became apparent that states' efforts to regulate abortion are having an equally divisive effect on the high court. In overturning a Pennsylvania law designed to discourage women from seeking abortions, Justice Harry Blackmun and four colleagues ringingly reaffirmed the court's 1973 landmark ruling. But four dissenters, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, sharply questioned the ever widening scope of Roe and subsequent decisions. If states cannot impose some limits...
...Deindustrialization critics argue that some of the hardship could easily be prevented through enlightened protectionism. Barry Bluestone, an economics professor at Boston College and co-author of The Deindustrialization of America, argues for ''vanishing'' protective tariffs to rebuild the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing. The tariffs would remain in effect only for a fixed period, perhaps five years, while a struggling industry regrouped. Bluestone also advocates a kind of supportive national planning to identify key industries that deserve help in recovery, in the same way that Washington helped Chrysler. However Bluestone and his allies are merely attempting to shore...
...Much more painful for the McCanns, though, is the fact that months of police investigation have left them no nearer to finding their daughter. Kate McCann on Monday lamented the "detrimental effect" suspicions of the parents' involvement may have had on the hunt. The release later this week of a book on the case by Goncalo Amaral, the police officer who led the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance until he was removed from the position in October, won't help; Amaral claims there's evidence that Madeleine died in the family's apartment. Meanwhile, any further investigation of the case...