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By late fall she was able to leave the ventilator for short periods to be held and rocked by nurses. Therapists manipulated her mouth to try to teach her the motions of sucking and eating, and eventually began feeding her tiny ! amounts of pureed food. They played grabbing and reaching...
ACCESS TO ABORTION CLINICS: On consecutive Thursdays in early May, both the House and the Senate adopted a joint conference report that creates federal civil and criminal penalties for those who use force, the threat of force or physical obstruction to block access to abortion clinics. The measure, which President...
During all this, the House Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey's Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino, had been conducting hearings on impeachment. It soon decided to impeach Nixon on three counts: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers and defiance of the committee's subpoenas.
Stephanopoulos says he was "blowing off steam," but was the President's trusted aide trying to get a potentially pesky Whitewater prober dismissed? Is this obstruction of justice?
If those charges can be proved, they could harm the President far more than the ones he tried to turn aside in his news conference -- rated even by Republican foes as an impressively smooth performance -- or the accusations leveled by G.O.P. Congressman Jim Leach in a speech hours earlier on...