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...President Reagan gets the opportunity to replace a couple of liberal Justices with conservatives, the court may finally move to outlaw racial preference. "The Stotts ruling is the first piece in the puzzle," says Vanderbilt University Law Professor Thomas McCoy. "These changes at the Supreme Court and the Cabinet level will eventually be seen as the first pieces in the dismantling of affirmative action...
...dramatic thing the Court do is overturn Roc vs. Wade," says Assistant Professor William Kristol '73 of the Kennedy School. But, Kristol cautions, all this would do is return the authority over abortion to the states, a measure which, though making the operation more difficult to obtain, would not outlaw it altogether...
...time is 1950, and young Corleone is preparing to end the two-year exile imposed after he killed Sollozzo the Turk and the corrupt Police Captain McCluskey. Michael's final assignment is to arrange the escape of a Sicilian outlaw who has become an endangered folk hero. This proves difficult. The godfather-in-training is given the runaround and a chance to witness treacheries that seem to have originated in the Punic Wars...
...notion, and are thus revolutionary in their efforts to alter that balance. It is foolish to think that international law will work with these states--notice what little recourse the Islamic world had when Afghanistan was invaded. Unfortunately for us, the Sandinistas have inaugurated Nicaragua into this fraternity of outlaw nations. Even while the United States was giving Nicaragua economic aid, the Sandinistas were deciding to align themselves with the soviets, engage in an unprecendented military buildup, and spread their revolution to El Salvador. Their revolutionary position predates by far the Reagan Administration's efforts at covert...
...followed such a course in 1962 we would be faced with a severly destabilizing nuclear threat from Cuba. Indeed, the folloy of this legalistic position becomes quite evident when you realize that it would make the courageous actions of President Kennedy into the crimes of an outlaw state. In the same way, the covert war and the mining of Nicaragua's harbors are legally indefensible, but vitally necessary actions in our policy toward the Sandinistas. It was only through these "illegal" pressures that the Sandinistas decided to negotiate, and even agree to the Contadora accord. While one may consider...