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...even Wechsler admits that the "vacillating" of the court on the issue hurts the bench's image. Former Reagan Justice Department Lawyer Bruce Fein has a harsher assessment: "This reinforces the notion that this court is without a head." The Burger Court has long been pushed and pulled by an unpredictable, shifting center. During his 14 years on the court, Blackmun, 76, has voted with the court's conservatives on many criminal-justice issues but frequently sided with the liberals on other questions. Some observers see the San Antonio reversal as the latest assertion of independence by a Justice once...
...delegates who gathered in Dublin's 18th century Mansion House for the annual conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, were exuberant. Reason: the I.R.A.'s success in planting the Brighton hotel bomb that last month almost killed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and left four people dead and 34 injured. "Far from being a blow against democracy," thundered Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams from a platform flanked by huge posters of the devastated hotel, "it was a blow for democracy." Adams termed the bombing "an inevitable result of the British presence...
Their cause has enjoyed increasingly vigorous support in recent months from Sikhs abroad. "We may not be in India," said Amarjit Singh Dhillon, general secretary of the Supreme Council of Sikhs, in London last week. "But we are to the fighters in the homeland what the provisional Sinn Fein is to the Irish Republican Army here." In all, there are about 250,000 Sikhs in the U.S., 80,000 of them in New York and as many as 60,000 more in Northern California. Some 400,000 live in Britain...
...grim rules of Northern Ireland's religious warfare, it was time for militant Protestants to strike back. Still, when the counterattack came, it proved to be more than the usual random raid against Roman Catholics. This time the Protestants' target was Gerry Adams, 35, president of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political arm, and the leading voice in support of the terrorist organization...
Adams also happens to hold a seat, which he has refused to occupy, in the British Parliament. He had left the Catholic stronghold of West Belfast to appear in court on a charge of disorderly conduct, stemming from the parliamentary election campaign. The Sinn Fein leader and four followers were driving through the city center when three men in a light brown Rover pulled up alongside and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three bullets struck Adams in the left arm and upper back. Three other people in the car were wounded, including the driver, who still managed to speed Adams...