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President Bush could make the nightmare all the more likely if he decides -- as some of his aides and key Congressmen are urging -- to start sending U.S. arms to the non-Communist resistance forces. Under present circumstances, and under current U.S. policy, that "lethal assistance" would be directed against Phnom Penh, not the Khmer Rouge...
...Good fences make good neighbors," says a line by Robert Frost. At Long Beach's Lindbergh Junior High School, the idea was to keep out some very bad neighbors. For years, outdoor gym classes have been endangered by bullets, bottles and even an arrow from the neighboring Carmelitos housing project. One student was shot while playing basketball in the Lindbergh school yard two years ago. A year later, gym teacher Joan Reedy had to hustle her class into the building when a bullet whizzed past...
...Speaker also sought to make some headway by concentrating his defense not on himself but on his wife Betty. The committee charged that Betty was paid $18,000 a year by Mallick for doing no work. Wright indignantly defended his wife's integrity and insisted she did work as an investment adviser; he produced a list of proposed investments she had supposedly looked into for Mallick. Mallick seems never to have acted on any, but Betty explained to the Washington Post that her advice frequently had been not to buy. To the New York Times she complained that "they...
...stronger majority," says Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi. "I also think they'll be confident that in the next few years they will get it." With Roe supporters William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun all in their 80s, George Bush is likely to be able to make some court appointments...
...states greater latitude to limit the availability of abortion, and limits are something that pro-choice forces fear almost as much as a reversal. Axing Roe would instantly bring home to millions of American women what they had lost. Whittling it away step by step, case by case could make it harder for pro-choice leaders to rally public support...