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...Robert Bork, the battle may be over, but the war goes on. The White House announced that President Reagan's controversial Supreme Court nominee would step down from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. In his resignation letter, Bork stated that he wants the time and freedom to rebut charges of right-wing zealotry that liberal lobbying groups fired at him last year during his unsuccessful Senate confirmation fight. "This was a public campaign of miseducation," wrote Bork, "to which, as a sitting federal judge, I felt I could not publicly respond...
...Doug Ginsburg to the nation, but the opening salvo in a highly partisan and combative plan authored by extremists in the Administration. Their goal was to ram down the throats of the Senate and the nation an unkown and unproven judge whose constitutional views would be hard to rebut because they would be hard to find and who, at age 41, could sit on the Court for decades. To make matters worse, officials did not deny that it was hoped the selection of the Jewish Ginsburg would pre-empt the opposition of Jewish liberals to the nomination of a judicial...
...group of anti-apartheid protesters billing themselves as the "Harvard Seven" were dealt a major setback this week when a local judge barred them from using a necessity defense to rebut charges that they unlawfully blockaded a University fundraising dinner at the Fogg Art Museum in November...
Reagan was forced to rebut another startling disclosure by McFarlane, in this case an apparent contradiction of Reagan's oft-stated policy of refusing to pay ransom to terrorists. McFarlane claimed that in 1985 the President authorized a plan to pay $2 million provided by Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot for the release of two American hostages in Beirut. "I don't recall anything ever being suggested in the line of ransom," Reagan said last week. But, he added, he may have discussed paying foreign agents who could help win the release of American captives. Said Reagan: "I've never...
...rebut that point, NASA last week belatedly claimed that preliminary analysis of cabin voice recordings shows that "the crew was unaware of the events associated with the tragedy." Said one NASA technician: "The tape ends just like the lights going out." But NASA would not reveal the contents of the taped conversations and said that reporters would have to file freedom-of-information requests to acquire transcripts. (Cockpit conversations in airliner accidents, by contrast, are routinely included in federal investigation reports.) The Smith suit faces two obstacles: survivors of military personnel are barred from suing the Government...