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...several other controversial possibilities, including Lino Graglia, a University of Texas law professor who has twice been rejected by the A.B.A. ''The White House has to decide if it wants the curtain to come down on the Reagan judiciary in the second term,'' says McGuigan, urging the Administration to push harder against the increased Senate resistance. One member of that resistance, Illinois Democrat Paul Simon, also sees the Manion battle as critical. ''Those appointed to the federal bench for life,'' he says, ''should be the best the legal profession has to offer. Too many clearly are not.'' While the Senate...
...stripped in a single month the already debilitated economy of one-third of its projected foreign exchange. And earlier this month the peso, which was worth 26 to the dollar in 1982, fell in only a week from around 530 to 750. By now, this fury of calamities has pushed Mexico to the brink of defaulting on its foreign debt of $98.6 billion. As De la Madrid recently warned, ''Dead men don't pay debts.'' Last week the country scrambled to avoid a financial collapse. The Central Bank intervened in currency markets to push the peso back...
...furnishing narcotics to Belushi. Instead of a possible 25 years to life, she faces a maximum of eight years and eight months. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox conceded that the accused ''honestly believes from a moral standpoint that she is not responsible for his death.'' Still, he will push for a three-year prison term. Said Fox: ''Cathy Smith is paying far less of a price for her participation (in drug abuse) than John Belushi...
...times had much of the world transfixed. Soon after she vanished from the family's vacation apartment in the southern Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz - parents Kate and Gerry were eating at a tapas bar in the resort complex at the time - a high-profile push to find Madeleine was launched. Soccer star David Beckham appealed for information. Kate and Gerry McCann even secured a brief audience with the Pope. And while reported sightings came to nothing, millions of dollars poured into a fund to help track down the couple's daughter...
...sidestep the potential trade-offs of their respective positions. When pressed, Obama will admit that the U.S. has a military responsibility to make sure Iraq "doesn't collapse," allowing that his timelines can be adjusted. Similarly, McCain will admit that there is only so far any leader can push against American public opinion, allowing for the possibility of withdrawal before total victory. "When the American people don't support a war," McCain said last year, "then we aren't able to maintain a foreign endeavor...