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...Leonard Fein, who has written several books on Israel and American Jewry, said that the occupation "violates both Jewish ethics and interests" and will inevitably lead to further violence in the Middle East. He made the remarks in response to an audience question, after his speech which called for a return to the original vison that led to the founding of Israel...
...Prime Minister Charles Haughey ordered an independent investigation of the case on Dublin's side of the border. Over recent weeks, the Republic has grown mistrustful of British judicial and security procedures. The situation was not helped by allegations that McAnespie, who had done low-level electioneering for Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican army, had regularly been harassed at the same checkpoint. Haughey's decision infuriated British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who declared that Dublin had no right to inquire into "matters north of the border...
...hired law clerks for the coming term, and he was obviously restless. "I don't think he finds judging all that interesting," says his D.C. circuit colleague Abner Mikva. Why, then, did Bork hang on so long after his defeat? Says Heritage Foundation Legal Expert Bruce Fein: "He didn't want this to look like the peevish decision of an upset...
Bork's supporters generally felt that he helped his case by coming across as open to change. Contended Bruce Fein, a legal scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "Open-minded people frequently change their minds. Constitutional jurisprudence is not first-grade arithmetic...
Some Reagan supporters fault the President for trying to depict Bork as a centrist. Bruce Fein, a conservative legal scholar and former Reagan Justice Department official, gives the Administration's strategy an A-plus for "ineptitude and cuteness." Contends Fein: "It's counterproductive because in the long run jurisprudence won't change unless the President says, 'I campaigned because we wanted to change the Supreme Court, and Bork represents the kind of judge who will correct the errors the court has made in the past.' " Fein believes the attempt to portray Bork as a moderate will collapse at the hearings...