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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam. Others include such Reagan Administration foreign policy hard-liners as Elliott Abrams and Richard Perle, Commentator Patrick Buchanan, and even Sylvester Stallone (who taught at a girls' school in Switzerland while the Commies were being beastly to his fantasy alter ego John Rambo). A similar Quayle-like controversy also surrounds the Rev. Pat Robertson, whose father, a Senator, may have helped him avoid combat in Korea...
...types of securities. That competitive inequity has led Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, to push for a revision of Glass-Steagall that would let commercial banks into the securities business. His proposed bill appears stalled at the moment, but the eventual passage of something similar may be inevitable...
...staff put together a lighthearted story comparing the dark netherworld of their trailer with the bright lights and glamour of the Omni Coliseum, where the Democrats were meeting. The story was a hit in West Germany and ran twice in translation on CNN; the ZDF home office ordered a similar story from the Republican Convention...
Four days later, however, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit declared that a similar law in Ohio was unconstitutional. If either of the conflicting decisions is taken to the Supreme Court, it will be a further test of the Administration's strategy. In his two terms, the President has designated three of the nine high-court Justices...
Beyond their unhappiness with the Minnesota ruling, abortion-rights groups are even more concerned about the possibility of an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last December, before the newest Justice, Anthony M. Kennedy, joined the bench, the court split 4 to 4 in reviewing an Illinois law similar to Minnesota's notification statute. Though Kennedy's judicial career yields few clues to his view on abortion, prochoice groups fear that he will provide a fifth, and deciding, vote in favor of limiting the 1973 landmark abortion decision, Roe v. Wade...