Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifers, trying to cover them up with placards, so that the TV cameras register support for the clinics. The pro- choicers chant and demand the arrest of the pro-lifers: "Read 'em their rights, and take 'em away." Each group has its grisly signs -- aborted fetuses on one side, women's corpses bloody from illegal abortions on the other. It is a noisy scene, hymns vs. chanted slogans, with both sides resorting to bullhorns to get above the din (and the police finally adding their loudspeakers). The task of the police is first to detach the two groups, ordering those...
...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...
...worst, Al Capone has a place in history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction...
...first three months of pregnancy. In effect, most Americans would treat abortion as something like divorce -- an anguishing decision but not a crime. Pro-life forces want to convince them that abortion is more like murder -- one of those acts that cannot be sanctioned as a choice. As each side flourishes its arguments and passions, its pictures of fetuses and coat hangers, the conscience too can feel set on a collision course with itself...
...Brennan, Marshall and Blackmun are usually joined in abortion rulings by John Paul Stevens, a Gerald Ford appointee. Almost certain to be on the other side are Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, who were the two dissenters when Roe was decided. Reagan appointees Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy never ruled on an abortion case during their years as lower- court judges, but both men are expected to favor limiting or overturning the decision...