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...Supreme Court and its rulings. Last week Meese's agency took aim at a favorite target of President Reagan and many of his conservative supporters: the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case, which struck down most legal restrictions on abortion. The Justice Department filed a 30-page amicus curiae brief asking the court to reverse its 7-to-2 decision. "The basis for Roe vs. Wade, " states the brief, "is so far flawed and is such a source of instability in the law that this court should reconsider that decision and on reconsideration abandon...
...superiors in Washington that Presser be indicted for fraud and conspiracy. But the Justice Department seemed to be dragging its heels in asking for an indictment. Last week the jurors decided to take matters into their own hands. In an extraordinary move, they asked to examine a 100-page memorandum that the Cleveland strike force sent to Washington last January...
...Pentagon officials) and published instructions on how to construct a letter bomb. But most remarkable of all, the first reports said, the youngsters had even managed to shift the orbit of one or more communications satellites. That feat, the New York Post decided, was worth a front-page headline: WHIZ KIDS ZAP U.S. SATELLITES...
...manic scramble for a handful of spots on the 1984 U.S. Olympic rowing team: "It was not a celebrated event ... no tickets were sold, and the community in which it was held, Princeton, New Jersey, largely ignored it." But a subtext soon makes itself apparent. Within a few pages the book becomes not merely an examination and celebration of one of the few authentic amateur sports. It is also a close analysis of addiction. For these rowers are, to a man, driven, single-minded, type-A combatants who make better companions on the page than they could possibly...
...Cleveland strike force, composed of investigators from both the Justice and Labor departments, had compiled a 100-page memo recommending that a grand jury be urged to indict Presser for allegedly putting "ghost workers" on the Local 507 payroll. The prosecutors had won convictions of or guilty pleas from two men: Allen Friedman, Presser's uncle, and John Nardi Jr. Evidence showed that from 1972 to 1981 the two were paid a total of some $275,000 by the Cleveland local without doing any work for it and that Presser had signed their paychecks. Friedman complained bitterly last week...