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A lower federal court upheld all portions of the law except the spousal- notification provision. But in the process it declared that abortion is no longer a fundamental right that requires courts to apply "strict scrutiny" to any restrictions that states might apply. If the Supreme Court endorses that view...
For a Western world grown accustomed to drawing facile distinctions between villains and heroes as it witnessed one political convolution after another, Algeria's crisis posed a jarring dilemma: Which takes precedence -- democratic principles or geopolitical self-interest? The U.S. initially appeared to support the annulment of the election by...
The Johnston-Wallop energy bill in the Senate downplayed conservation, boosted nuclear power and called for oil exploration in Alaska's pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was this last provision that sparked the threat of a filibuster, forcing the bill's sponsors to bail out.
In 1981 Simon & Schuster agreed to pay career criminal Henry Hill $100,000 for telling author Nicholas Pileggi about life inside the Mafia. The resulting book, Wiseguy, became a best seller and the basis for the hit movie GoodFellas. But New York State's highest court ruled that the payment...
So far U.S. and allied efforts to contain proliferation have focused heavily on getting nations to open their facilities to inspection by the IAEA. But Iraq's success in reaching the brink of nuclear-weapons production with a clandestine program while allowing IAEA inspectors to visit its few declared facilities...