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In a six-day series, Trudeau depicted Sinatra as a vulgar-mouthed pal of mobsters, undeserving of the Medal of Freedom recently given him by Reagan. The most debated strip quoted a citation that accompanied an honorary degree Sinatra received last month from New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology...
Caspar Weinberger's opinion was blunt and harsh. Asked how the four suspects in the Walker spy scandal should be punished if found guilty, the Defense Secretary replied, "They should be shot," adding that he supposed "hanging is the preferred method." Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, who introduced a...
John A. Walker Jr., his son, brother and California accomplice need not worry about execution for their years of espionage while in the Navy. At present, the maximum penalty for spying in peacetime is life imprisonment; both Weinberger and Stevens knew that a harsher sentence could not be imposed retroactively...
In a 6-to-3 decision, the court struck down Alabama's 1981 moment-of-silence law because of its "endorsement and promotion of prayer." Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for five members of the majority, noted that the 1981 law supplemented an already required daily period of silent "meditation...
Stevens added, however, that Alabama's attempt to reintroduce prayer is "quite different from merely protecting every student's right to engage in voluntary prayer during an appropriate moment of silence." In a dizzying array of dissents and concurrences, the fractured court indicated that at least five Justices -- and perhaps...