Word: points
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally has a point, and he consulted such experts as Henry Kissinger and Jordan's King Hussein before adopting it. Although his proposal goes somewhat further than Jimmy Carter's support of a Palestinian "homeland," self-determination is obviously a principle that has widespread support. Indeed, some experts believe it is the only principle that can attract the volatile Palestinians to the negotiating table. Other experts wonder, nonetheless, what coercion would persuade the Israelis to agree to any plan that might bring the Palestine Liberation Organization to sovereign power. And, although the pro-Israeli protests may be exaggerated...
...commission found that at least 30 tons of fuel in the upper portion of the reactor core, which had lost the protection of cooling water, had reached the dangerously high temperature of 4,000° F or more. A reactor would hit the meltdown point at about 5,200° F-a level that ''may have'' been reached by a small but still undetermined portion of the fuel...
...with my children and grandchildren to Jericho even as [West Bank Arabs] go to Natanya [in Israel]. The Arabs understand this. When the Egyptian delegation was here, they asked us to take them to the Horns of Hattin, where the Crusaders were defeated by Saladin. I can see their point...
...case in point is Roe vs. Wade, the controversial 1973 decision striking down state laws that prohibited abortion. According to clerks on the court at the time, Burger joined the majority to keep the opinion away from the then senior Justice, William O. Douglas. The most liberal member of the court, Douglas wanted to base the decision on a broad constitutional right to privacy. Burger preferred a more narrowly drawn opinion, one that would invite the states to replace rigid with less restrictive abortion laws. As a furious Douglas accused Burger of abusing the assigning power, the Chief gave...
Burger has played a much more visible leadership role off the bench. He likes to point out that his title is not Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, it is Chief Justice of the U.S. More than any Chief since William Howard Taft, who served 50 years ago, Burger has been concerned with the administration of justice in the U.S. In speeches, interviews and articles, he is constantly proposing ways to help courts cope with their huge backlogs...