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...years of exile on the fringe of American politics, after stunning victories in the 1980 elections, after almost two years of impatient waiting while the Administration and Congress focused on economic matters, the New Right and its allies at last had a fighting chance to pass the most controversial item on their social agenda: legislation to ban abortion. But after three futile attempts to muster the votes necessary to choke off a liberal filibuster, the most conservative Senate in more than a generation abandoned the effort and voted 47 to 46 last week to table the issue...
Staking out market positions for what may be the hottest Christmas item...
...story soon took a turn for the better. Following a Channel 7 evening news item the day after, the theft, a viewer, whose anonymity Roe is protecting. telephoned the police and reported seeing an abandoned trailer that matched Roe's description in a Medford field. By 9 p.m., Roe had arrived at the site and confirmed the viewer's suspicion...
Prison overcrowding, like prison riots (which overcrowding helps ignite) and nominal devotion to prison reform (to which riots give a short-lived public urgency), has been a U.S. constant. Today the American Correctional Association, the main organization of prison officials, has a 495-item roster of adult-prison standards. A basic requirement is that each prisoner have his own cell of at least bathroom size, 60 sq. ft., half as large as cells provided in one Pennsylvania prison 150 years ago. But today only about a fifth of U.S. inmates have one-man, 60-sq.-ft. cells...
Beyond that difficulty looms the immense question of who would enforce the amendment. To legal experts it is conceivable that the whole federal budget, item by item, might end up for review by the Supreme Court. Says Yale Law Professor Burke Marshall: "This would be the breeding ground for an enormous amount of litigation." Conservatives who condemn the activism of American judges should wonder whether they really want to watch the courts of the land running the appropriations process...