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These drugs kill people; they destroy lives and families. But on the same day that University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died from a cocaine over-dose, countless more Americans abused alcohol. Some of those people died, others brought about the deaths of others. By suggesting that substance abuse flourishes largely among a segment of the population outside the mainstream, Reagan arms himself with painlessly-acquired political capital, yet ultimately misrepresents the problem...
...16th Chief Justice of the U.S. was all but certain, William Rehnquist received only grudging approval from the U.S. Senate last week. Democrats castigated his caustic opposition to civil rights programs and questioned his ability to serve as a "symbol of justice" for the nation. Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland objected to Rehnquist's failure in 1972 to withdraw as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from a civil liberties case that he had worked on as an Assistant Attorney General...
...Impatience is already running high. A nine-member House team of "managers," or prosecutors, in the case, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, asked that the Senate find Claiborne guilty on the spot, using just the evidence that he is a convicted felon. Committee Chairman Charles Mathias of Maryland rejected that proposal...
...Reagan appointed her staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in 1983, Chavez worked on civil rights enforcement in the Carter Administration (she now considers Carter "an absolute disaster as President") and held jobs with the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. She moved to Maryland two years ago, and although the Republicans face a 3-to-1 disadvantage in voter registration, her victory is considered critical to G.O.P. hopes for retaining a majority in the Senate...
...will be the first female Democrat elected to the Senate who did not originally fill a vacancy left by her husband. Clearly, American politics is entering a new phase, one that reflects society's changing attitudes toward women. Even the traditional election-night celebrations are being transformed. In Maryland last week, an ebullient Kathleen Kennedy Townsend stood on the dais after the primary, thumbs up in victory. Next to her stood her husband David, their youngest child Kate in his arms, and their other two daughters Meaghan and Maeve beside him. The Townsends were not arranged the way political families...