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When 600 demonstrators rallied a block from Independence Hall for a lesbian and gay bill of rights, police on foot and horseback assiduously enforced a federal judge's ruling that demonstrators could be heard but not seen: their constitutional rights did not include marching within sight of the main celebration. Hundreds of National Park Service rangers, Philadelphia police and U.S. Capitol police set up barricades and used metal detectors to check all visitors...
This has offended many deep thinkers. Crucial constitutional questions of official secrecy, separation of powers, chain of command and the like were highlighted by North's testimony. Deep thinkers are offended that the masses have lost sight of them in Olliemania. But these questions have hardly been neglected. For the past eight months the country's op-ed pages have conducted a national seminar on the conflicting demands of secrecy, democracy and constitutionality...
...final speech at the end of North's testimony, Representative Stokes made a moving statement in which he reflected the other reaction to North. If bigots are inspired by the sight of a marine in uniform standing up to an ethnically diverse Congress, Blacks like Stokes are left uneasy by that same figure asserting that popular will must be carried out. He said that North's intense belief in loyalty to individuals rather than loyalty to the law was particularly offensive to Black Americans. Stokes said that North seemed not to take the Constitution seriously, but rather was interested...
...city hall plaza. Then, goaded by a far-left student faction, the crowd began marching up Taepyongno Street in the direction of the Blue House, the official residence of South Korea's President. The route was blocked off by riot police, who until then had remained out of sight. Within minutes the confrontation erupted into full-scale combat that lasted about two hours. Police fired pepper gas from five "black elephants," truck-mounted guns that spew out canisters at machine-gun speed. The protesters attacked police by hurling stones and tossing fire bombs...
...became involved in. One reason is North's irrepressible flair for self-dramatization. In the days before he began taking the Fifth Amendment, he told innumerable stories about daring exploits that either were embellished or seem never to have happened. Another reason is that he operated far out of sight of much of the official Government. He claimed to have done much of the planning for the invasion of Grenada. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, then Ambassador to the United Nations, who attended the meeting at which that invasion was finally approved, says North was not present and his name never came...