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...Rose Bird," said Deukmejian in his campaign, "has done more damage to the California Supreme Court and the administration of justice than any of her predecessors." That battle cry from the Governor-elect signals merely the latest assault wave on the court. Whether the damage was done by Bird, her critics or both, the sad result is that this state court, once reputed to be the nation's best, has lost both its luster and its leadership role...
...timing technicality that could have denied Brown the chance. He might also be able to put one more justice on the supreme court. Frank Newman, a liberal he appointed in 1977, has decided to resign, probably by month's end. Condemning the expected "deathbed" appointments, the Governor-elect is now planning various procedural tactics to stop Brown. But the court will continue to have a large liberal-leaning majority, consisting of Jerry Brown's five choices and Stanley Mosk, named by Governor Pat Brown (with only Reagan Appointee Frank Richardson right of center). Thus the prospect...
From the cloistered political scientist spinning academic theories about ideological trends to the clubhouse party pro grubbing for fresh clues on how to elect future candidates, various experts will be mulling for months over the minutiae of the 1982 election returns. What matters in practical national terms, however, is how the politicians in power interpret the sentiments expressed by voters on Nov. 2, and how those millions of often clashing voices translate into calls for specific courses of governmental action. Last week there was an emerging consensus among leading politicians, based as much on intuition as solid evidence, about what...
...members of the commission reminded Begin that the Phalangists had committed other massacres in the past. They also read from Cabinet minutes and other documents to show that the possibility of revenge killings by the militiamen in the aftermath of the assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel had been raised not only in Begin's presence but by the Prime Minister himself. He had, in fact, told U.S. Negotiator Morris Draper that the Israeli army had moved into West Beirut, in defiance of the agreement that had been negotiated for the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, "to prevent...
...Massachusetts, "there are not enough qualified candidates to fill high technology jobs," said Thomas P. Herman, director of Gov.-elect Michael Dukakis' issues task force...