Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moscow putsch of last August, he predicts with remarkable prescience that the Soviet Union will dissolve into a "commonwealth of free and equal nations" that "will coordinate, not govern, the actions of republics." Consequently, his advice on foreign policy is well worth the attention even of those who still gag on hearing his name...
...brokered the endorsements was Harold Ickes Jr., a longtime liberal activist who has supported every far-left Democratic presidential candidate from Eugene McCarthy to Jesse Jackson. "When you consider Harold's politics and then the fact that Manton supported Bush on the gag rule on abortion, you have to concede that a coalition is being built," says Sarah Kovner, another New York liberal activist in Clinton's corner...
...investigation concluded last May when the Ivy League members of Overlap, under pressure from the Justice Department, signed an agreement known as "the consent decree." The decree imposed a gag rule on financial aid offices, effectively ending the practice of jointly deciding aid awards...
...ADDAMS FAMILY. This elegant spin-off from the Charles Addams drawings and the '60s TV series is worth seeing for the casting alone: Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Raul Julia as Gomez, Christina Ricci as the elfin ghoul Wednesday. A one-joke movie -- every gag is about the aristocracy of decay -- but handsomely told...
...gag-rule debate is only the latest skirmish in a war over abortion that could injure Bush severely. The ultimate battle will be joined if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion-rights decision, Roe v. Wade, before next year's election -- an action some pro-choice activists would ironically welcome. Planned Parenthood, for one, is eager to throw the issue into the political arena as quickly as possible, and so is urging the high court to consider immediately Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion law, on the assumption that the conservative Justices appointed by Bush and Ronald Reagan would...