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Since any one of the five permanent members of the council (the U.S., Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China) can veto a resolution, an embargo rested heavily on Moscow and Peking. The Chinese, whom U.S. officials charged with regularly selling arms to Iran, have been cool to an embargo...
Leahy said he understood the reasons, but Humphrey persisted, asking Bork if his consulting work "coincided with heavy medical bills in your family." Visibly moved, Bork rested his chin in his hand and quietly replied, "Yeah." Chairman Biden quickly declared that it was time to take a break. It was...
Last week, for the first time in their brief lives, Patrick and Benjamin Binder of Ulm, West Germany, lay in separate cribs. Benjamin rested next to his stuffed dog, Patrick with his teddy bear nearby. They had been parted during an operation of staggering complexity and delicacy -- five months in...
In a Manchester, N.H., motel room one afternoon last month, Jackson rested under the sheets of a king-size bed. There was something sultan-like about him as he sat propped up, arms folded across his chest, wearing a white undershirt. His voice was the tip-off to his great...
The U.S. Supreme Court attempted to address these questions in its landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. The court's solution rested on the concept of viability, defined as the time the fetus is "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb albeit with artificial aid." Until that...