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...sickened by the assassination of Benigno Aquino [Sept. 5]. In all the furor over human rights in Afghanistan, Iran, El Salvador and Soviet-bloc countries, the U.S. has consistently overlooked the atrocities committed in the Philippines. Now is the time to take a close look at what is happening there and with whom we are allying ourselves...
...weekend sailor, I thought the America's Cup was a showcase for sailing ability, design and innovation. So why all the furor? Come on, America, one John McEnroe is enough...
...Nashville businessmen admittedly had little wealth, but refused to discuss the financing of their purchase of U.P.I. Insisted Ruhe at the time: "No one is behind us." As an unintended admission of unpopularity, that statement was uncomfortably true: their home-town Nashville Banner immediately dropped U.P.I, because of the furor...
When Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, the protests from his New Right constituency were blistering. The furor focused on several votes O'Connor had cast as an Arizona state senator that were interpreted as being proabortion. Therefore, it came as something of a surprise last week when, in the first test of her views on the issue since she joined the brethren 21 months ago, O'Connor wrote a blunt dissent to the court's opinion that reaffirmed the right to abortion...
Three hangings spark a furor...