Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Solicitor General Charles Fried, called back by the Bush Administration to argue this case, who made the broad attack, presenting the White House argument that Roe should be overturned. In the most interesting exchanges of the morning, O'Connor and Kennedy appeared to press Fried to explain how the court could reverse Roe without also undoing a crucial 1965 decision, Griswold v. Connecticut. In that ruling the court found that the right of privacy protects the decision to use contraceptives. Abortion is different, Fried replied, because it involves the purposeful termination of potential life. "We are not asking...
...more personal barb came from columnist George Will, who has close ties to the Reagans. He noted archly that when Bush returned from his February trip to Asia, he called to consult with former President Jimmy Carter rather than Reagan. That may explain Bush's eagerness last week to recruit Reagan for special diplomatic missions to Asia and elsewhere...
...been physicists. Retorts Pons: "Chemists are supposed to discover new chemicals. The physicists don't like it when they discover new physicals." In fact, many chemists feel -- with much justification -- that the physicists consider themselves intellectually superior. Says Cheves Walling, a Utah chemist who has developed one theory to explain how the cold-fusion experiment might work: "Chemists resent the fact that physicists can get money for multimillion-dollar experiments that could have gone to chemists to do something more useful...
...Osama Al-Zomar, wanted for a bloody attack on a Rome synagogue that killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 34 people. The Minister decreed that Al-Zomar's actions fell "within the domain of the struggle to regain the independence of his homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing as narcotics traffickers. They persuaded him to discuss a drug deal on the yacht Skunk Kilo as it plied international waters. Once aboard...
Furet views contemporary France as a "republic of the center" in which a consensus has emerged in favor of market economics combined with broad social services. "Left-right rhetoric today does not correspond to reality," he says. "France has buried its civil war." Three key changes explain why: the Fifth Republic finally established a strong, stabilizing presidency; the appeal of the Communist Party has withered; and the old antagonism between the Roman Catholic church and state has eased. "The left is in power precisely because it renounced its revolutionary culture," he says...