Word: protectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The scorecard on the still young 1988 election cycle would have been inconceivable a generation ago: two presidential candidates already dispatched by fatal headlines, several others wounded, a few discouraged from entering. As recently as the 1960s, journalistic convention protected the private lives of politicians except under unusual circumstances. Now...
From Southern California to Texas, towering saguaros on front lawns are the hottest thing since plastic pink flamingos. The demand has encouraged an illicit industry: cactus rustling. Many of the specimens bought by homeowners and collectors have been stolen from Government-owned wilderness lands. In Arizona last year more than...
One striking example of the difference: in separate cases, Bork and Kennedy ! both ruled that the Navy could dismiss homosexuals from the service, but for very different reasons. Bork took the occasion to attack a long line of Supreme Court decisions reading into the Constitution a right to privacy. Kennedy...
Former students of Kennedy's at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento report that he spent much class time discussing privacy cases. He gave some the impression that, unlike Bork, he does recognize a constitutionally protected right to privacy. But he seemed sympathetic when a student once argued that...
Around midnight on April 28, 1944, a force of 25,000 U.S. troops was preparing to make an amphibious landing at Slapton Sands, on the southern coast of England. The operation, known as Exercise Tiger, was a practice drill for the invasion of Normandy, just five weeks away. But things...