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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predicted the Supreme Court would one day reject the death penalty. At one point in the 1970s, the high court rejected the death penalty but then reinstituted...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The Most Cruel and Unusual Punishment | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Israelis reject the 1915 version, claiming it was faked by the British in order to give them a pleasant view of the port of Aqaba, now part of Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight Over a Topless Beach | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Last week Chavez derided Mikulski as a "San Francisco-style, George McGovern Democrat. People are going to reject her kind of liberalism." The Mikulski camp has countered with a charge that Chavez has "no moral anchor," a reference to her party switching. Nothing in these bareknuckle exchanges smacks of what journalists used to call petticoat politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Petticoat Politics | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...predicted the Supreme Court would one day reject the death penalty. At one point in the 1970s, the high court rejected the death penalty but then reinstituted...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The Most Cruel and Unusual Punishment | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

...predicted the Supreme Court would one day reject the death penalty. At one point in the 1970s, the high court rejected the death penalty but then reinstituted...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The Most Cruel and Unusual Punishment | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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