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Despite the medical recognition of alcoholism as a disease 21 years ago, there is still uncertainty over its legal status as an illness. Michael Deaver, the former aide to President Reagan who is on trial for lying to a grand jury about his lobbying activities, is arguing that he was...
One striking example of the difference: in separate cases, Bork and Kennedy ! both ruled that the Navy could dismiss homosexuals from the service, but for very different reasons. Bork took the occasion to attack a long line of Supreme Court decisions reading into the Constitution a right to privacy. Kennedy...
After the memorial service, there is a picnic and church bazaar. While women swap dessert recipes and sewing hints, men exchange investment tips and talk soccer. Everybody gossips. Weightier topics are also touched on: AIDS, the Persian Gulf war, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion...
Lenin's white statue seemed to gaze down expectantly on Mikhail Gorbachev as the Soviet leader walked to the podium of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, - opened a thick folder and began his 2-hr. 41-min. speech. Between Lenin and Gorbachev lay seven decades of Soviet history, much...
Gorbachev's overall caution reflected the delicate balancing act he must perform to keep the party's conservative and liberal factions in line. Internal party tensions flared up dramatically at an Oct. 21 meeting of the policy-setting Central Committee, details of which subsequently surfaced in the Western press. On...