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...didn't the Secretary of the Interior go to Alaska soon after the spill to see the scope of the disaster with his own eyes? Three weeks before the spill, an Environmental Protection Agency report criticized oil companies' "careless management of chemical and oil wastes on Alaska's North Slope." The lack of a coherent plan to deal with such crises has given new meaning to the phrase, "from sea to shining...
...just the sort of act that prompts critics to accuse NATO of being too sluggish and too cautious in responding to Gorbachev's initiatives. Moreover, the spectacle of departing troops, which Moscow intends to conduct with considerable public fanfare, plays effectively to a European public ever more willing to see the bright side of Gorbachev's promises...
Even if, sooner or later, there is an outright reversal of Roe, it will not make abortion illegal. It will simply leave individual states free to permit, regulate or ban abortion as they see fit. The probable result would be a national patchwork. Legislatures in six states have already said they will ban it. An additional 25 have passed restrictions that will go into effect if Roe is overturned. Among those considered most likely to keep it legal are a handful of other states, including California, Hawaii, New York and Washington, which were among the 16 states that permitted abortion...
...already forming along party lines. Twenty-five Senators and 115 Congressmen put their names to a brief in the Webster case supporting Roe. All but 17 were Democrats. But Republican strategists do not expect abortion to threaten the G.O.P. advantage in presidential years. "I don't think you'll see the Republican Party or the White House getting involved in all these state fights over it," says G.O.P. consultant Charles Black. "In a national election I would expect abortion to be one of the second-tier issues, not a top-tier burning...
...lower tiers, where the daily life of the nation is conducted, abortion is sure to remain a burning issue. So long as Roe survives, the pro- life movement will keep up pressure for its reversal. And if the court dismantles Roe, the U.S. is likely to see a situation not unlike the one it lived through during Prohibition, when the law was flouted -- sometimes openly, sometimes covertly but very widely. A new era of uncertainty will open for American women, whose opportunities in life have been transformed in part by the freedom that Roe afforded. But two things are certain...