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...clear opportunity to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that granted women the constitutional right to have an abortion -- just as the presidential election season gets under way. Last week both houses of the Louisiana legislature overrode Governor Buddy Roemer's veto of a bill that would prohibit virtually all abortions, except to save the life of the mother or in some cases of rape or incest. The new law was rushed before a federal judge in New Orleans, who will hold a hearing next month on its constitutionality, the first step on the road to the Supreme Court...
Wrong on both counts. Robb won easily, and Wilder, ever flexible, used the new Senator's warm words of support in a campaign commercial. Meanwhile, the unsolicited tape showed up at Robb's office. Both federal and Virginia statutes prohibit covert intercepts as well as dissemination of their contents. Robb said he viewed the tape as "political gossip" rather than a legal land mine. In any event, he said, he had ordered the contents kept secret...
While the N.R.A. has yet to sue the housing authority, Richard Gardiner, director of the gun lobby's state government-relations division, says a future lawsuit is possible. Among other possibilities, he adds, is "using legislation to prohibit housing authorities from putting such ((antigun)) provisions in place...
...terms of a 1987 rate agreement specifically prohibit any adjustments to the indirect cost payment rates, which one government official says may prevent HHS from recovering any inappropriate billings...
...AALARM points out, traditional Judiasm, like Christianity, does prohibit homosexual activity. Judiasm does not, however, prohibit homosexuals. This distinction is obviously lost on AALARM, which called for the exclusion of homosexuals from Harvard and their imprisonment in last week's postering campaign. Such personal attacks are anathema to the entire Jewish tradition; our history has taught us to resist hate and persecution and to defend others who are victims of hate and persecution...