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...Brian Boitano and Canada's Brian Orser each skate electrifying, near perfect two- minute programs. Even Cliff Huxtable wouldn't miss tonight's head-to-head: 6.0s could be in the air. -- On tape: Swiss Downhillers Michela Figini and Maria Walliser (one-two at Sarajevo) renew their pell-mell, icy-cool rivalry...
...what way did Ginsburg or Gore or Claiborne Pell (a one-time, four- puff penitent) do wrong? The most obvious answer is that they willfully broke a law. True. But if what is at stake is respect for law, why the agitation about this particular law out of the thousands on the books, out of the dozens that every non-monastic citizen has broken at one time or another. If law is the issue, then the press ought to be asking public figures not "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" but "Have you ever broken the law, any law?" We could...
...that more than 23% of the adult population has used marijuana, including a staggering 64% of those ages 18 to 25. Indeed, two Democratic presidential candidates, Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, were prompted to admit that they too had tried pot years ago. Similar confessions came from Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island and conservative Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia...
Under the Bennett plan, schools at which more than 20 percent of those students with GSLs fail to repay their debts will lose access to all federal financial aid programs, including Pell grants and College Work-Study. The plan, which does not need Congressional approval, will impose its first cuts in 1989, the Secretary said...
...next move may lie with the U.S. Congress. Last week, in an article in the Washington Post, Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, denounced Pakistan for "breaking its commitments and flouting U.S. laws." Representative Dante Fascell of Florida, who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has asked the Administration to suspend military portions of the aid package until Pakistan shows that it is not involved in illicit attempts to obtain nuclear materials. And an appropriations subcommittee has already voted to suspend a small portion of the aid. Many analysts believe congressional action will end there, since awareness...