Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limits are something that pro-choice forces fear almost as much as a reversal. Axing Roe would instantly bring home to millions of American women what they had lost. Whittling it away step by step, case by case could make it harder for pro-choice leaders to rally public support...
...Republican Party had a strong antiabortion plank in its 1988 platform, and George Bush has become a steadfast pro-lifer, though he got there by a meandering path. He was once quoted as opposing a constitutional amendment to declare that life begins at conception, and he once supported public funding for some abortions. On his first working day in the White House, however, the President addressed a group of pro-life marchers in Washington by telephone hookup, calling abortion "an American tragedy." Yet Republicans also know that their party's identification with the antiabortion cause could cost them votes...
They hang out in parking lots and playgrounds. They commandeer vacant apartments. In some cities they have become occupying armies, besieging entire housing complexes. They are the drug dealers who have terrorized public- housing projects since the birth of the crack-cocaine trade. Last week Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp announced sweeping plans to drive drug dealers out of public housing. But in his zeal to attack the drug crisis, Kemp may have ignored serious questions of practicality, if not constitutionality...
Kemp has been inspired by the antidrug crusades waged by a number of local public-housing authorities. Perhaps the most successful effort has been Operation Clean Sweep, which began at Chicago's Rockwell Gardens project. Led by the executive director of the city's housing authority, Vince Lane, the program has provided frequent drug raids by police and has planned for tenant . security patrols. Anyone entering a building is required to present a photo ID at a security desk in the lobby. Since the plan was instituted last September, the crime rate at Rockwell Gardens has dropped...
...them largely with HUD funds that have been set aside for modernizing the complexes. To pay for the drug war, local housing authorities would have to sacrifice the installation of storm windows, new heating systems and other badly needed improvements. Robert McKay, executive director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, complains of being faced with an "impossible choice between fixing up dwellings or fighting drugs -- and you have to do both." Moreover, housing officials are going to have less and less money for either task. HUD modernization funds are scheduled to be cut by $649 million next year...