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Preacher Jerry Falwell made a big splash last March when he wrested the PTL television ministry from Jim Bakker. Last week the minister made another big splash. Wearing a natty blue suit, Falwell, 54, plunged down the "Killer Typhoon" water slide at PTL's Heritage USA amusement park...
Bork's major statement in the free press area came in a 1984 ruling in which he concurred in the dismissal of a libel suit brought by Bertell Ollman, a Marxist college professor, against the conservative columnists Evans and Novak. In language that went beyond Supreme Court decisions on the matter (and which provoked a sharp rebuttal joined by his then colleague Antonin Scalia), Bork wrote that a "remarkable upsurge" in libel suits and damage awards "has threatened to impose a self-censorship on the press" as effective as government censorship. Because the core value of a free press...
...Georgia. Last week the Peach State and its capital, Atlanta, got an unusual chance to shoot back once again at Washington, this time over tax reform. In one of the first legal challenges to the Reagan Administration's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the city and state governments filed suit in federal court, charging that the measure unlawfully restricts the tax-exempt status of interest from municipal bonds. Former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell, who is handling the plaintiffs' suit, claims that the act places unconstitutional limits on the ways that state and local governments can raise funds...
...state and local governments or regulate their taxing, and the state didn't try to interfere with the Federal Government's power to tax." Shafroth's organization, as well as the Government Finance Officers Association, a national organization of public finance officials, is co-plaintiff in the Georgia suit. Fumes Mayor Young: "The Federal Government has been chipping away at our ability to finance necessary state and local governmental facilities for almost 20 years now. It is time to call a halt...
...girls navy blue jumpers and blouses. The $30 uniforms -- aimed at cooling peer appearance pressure -- are not mandatory, but officials expect almost 100% compliance. The idea, long common only in private and Roman Catholic parochial schools, may even catch on. This week a public school in Washington is following suit. Parents in the experimenting schools are behind the move. "All I have to do is buy two uniforms this year," reports a relieved Baltimore mother. "Last year I spent $200 on clothes...