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George W. Bush's first workday was also the day that tens of thousands of antiabortion activists gathered in Washington for their annual protest against the landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a woman's right to abortion. So new was the Bush team on Jan. 22, 2001, that most officials hadn't yet been issued their White House telephone extensions. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback frantically dialed cell-phone numbers from the rally's stage beneath the Washington Monument. When he finally reached Tim Goeglein of the Office of Public Liaison, Brownback put his request for a show of support bluntly...
American and British officials were more excited about another exercise by the inspectors the same day. British sources say about a thousand pages of documents relating to Iraqi weapons programs were seized, under protest, after inspectors visited the homes of two scientists in Baghdad. White House officials said the documents deal with nuclear programs; Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector, later indicated that the trove includes details of an old enriched-uranium project. There may be more such discoveries ahead. Both the British and the Americans are giving the inspectors intelligence leads (the British claim responsibility...
...other social workers have slammed it as simplistic. "The government's position is: We'll never be able to eradicate prostitution, so let's do what we can to hide it from view," he says. Last week, dozens of prostitutes demonstrated outside the Assemblée Nationale to protest the punitive measures contained in the new bill. "This law won't solve the problem of trafficking," says Claude Boucher, director of the Friends of the Women's Bus, an association that acts as an intermediary between prostitutes and social services. "Over 90% of the girls in Paris are controlled...
...produced and co-directed by Time Inc.'s Bennett Singer and scheduled for national broadcast on Jan. 20) and reading his prose, one is struck by a central, inspiring fact. Rustin never wavered in his belief in true racial integration. He saw the civil rights movement not as a protest against America or an indictment of it but as a way for America to live up to its own principles. In stark contrast to Malcolm X, with whom he civilly debated, Rustin emphasized not what white Americans owed blacks or what blacks could do in a separatist ghetto but what...
...infection; in Boston. Wyman, a former Polaroid and Pillsbury executive who rose to the top of CBS before being ousted by founder William Paley in 1986 for allegedly suggesting that the network be sold to Coca-Cola, recently made news when he quit the Augusta National Golf Club to protest its males-only membership policy...