Word: states
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four days, collapsed after only two, during which pro-choice legislators turned back 14 antiabortion bills -- three of them proposed by the Governor. Abortion-rights activists were jubilant. "This has gone better than we hoped," exulted Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "It should encourage state politicians everywhere who are pro-choice to take a stand...
...already encouraged several in Florida. Though he had expected to be easily renominated by his party for next year's gubernatorial race, Martinez must now overcome a primary challenge from pro-choice Republican State Senator Marlene Woodson-Howard. Anxious not to revive old charges that he is an indecisive leader, Martinez has vowed to reintroduce the defeated bills when the legislature meets in regular session next April. He dismisses the notion that he may have suffered politically. "When you're functioning out of conviction," he says, "you can't think of politics...
...right-to-lifers who jointly swelled the G.O.P.'s ranks in the 1980s. Excited Democrats are testing out pro-choice positions to see whether they can lure away pro-choice Republicans and independents. Such strategies could prove especially damaging if they lead to the defeat of Republicans in state legislatures, which next year will begin reapportioning congressional districts on the basis of the 1990 census...
...1970s revelations about CIA covert attempts on the life of Fidel Castro and similar pranks, and is a distant echo of the reactions to the assassination of President Kennedy. But there is nothing in the order limiting the ban to covert action or to attempts on heads of state. It simply forbids "assassination." What is assassination? If the word just means killing someone, anyone, for political reasons, then it effectively bans the use of -- or even conspiracy to use -- lethal force. That would make America the first pacifist superpower. The whole Pentagon should be arrested...
...Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that...