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Kennedy and several other professors involved with the program are affiliated with the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) school of thought, which holds that the legal system reinforces prejudices inherent in the status quo. However, the program has no official connection with CLS and is open to "basically anyone," Kennedy said...
...Chirac's status as a center-right Premier under a leftist head of state, an arrangement known in France as cohabitation, was a controversial first-time experiment. Barre had opposed it as a "trap," and never fails to include the period of Chirac's premiership when he lists France's alleged economic ills. On balance, however, Chirac probably comes out ahead on the issue. Cohabitation has proved popular with most voters. Moreover, Chirac's position allows him to accompany Mitterrand to such highly public occasions as last month's Anglo-French summit meeting in London...
That view is shared by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who two weeks ago responded coolly to a U.S. proposal for indirect talks with the Palestinians leading to local elections and then negotiations on the permanent status of the occupied territories. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he had "no substantive reservations" about the U.S. plan. Last week, after refusing to meet U.S. Special Envoy Richard Murphy jointly with Peres, Shamir said he might back limited "interim" autonomy for the Palestinians and asked Washington for "clarifications." But he widened his rift with Peres by accusing him of leaking details of their talks...
Between them, Blandon and Rodriguez detailed a drug-trafficking operation that has spread corruption throughout Central and South America. The latest victim is Honduras, where top army officials are said to have developed close ties with drug dealers. The U.S. fears that the drug lords will undermine Honduras' status as a staging area for the contra war and a future democratic bulwark against Sandinista expansion...
What made Watkins' case different, said the judges, was that he was charged only with being gay, not with a specific act of sodomy. Wrote Norris: "Any attempt to criminalize the status of an individual's sexual orientation would present grave constitutional problems." Watkins has never denied his orientation. The son of a career Army man, he admitted "homosexual tendencies" when he enlisted in 1967, at 19. Later he worked during off-duty hours, with his commander's permission, as a female impersonator. In his job rating, he was regularly praised for spit-shined professionalism. Although previous investigations had upheld...