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Massachusetts. The state supreme court last month struck down the legislature's ban on abortion funding. But pro-lifers won a round by pushing through a law that requires unmarried minors to have either the consent of a parent or a Superior Court judge before getting an abortion-a restriction that goes one step beyond Utah's parental notification statute. A federal court of appeals upheld the consent law, but struck down provisions requiring pregnant woman to read, in advance of the operation, a detailed description of her unborn fetus...
Flashbulbs popped and reporters shouted questions when a jubilant Carol Burnett emerged from Los Angeles county superior court last week, hugging fans and signing autographs for jurors. After eight days of testimony and three of deliberation, the jurors had provided a classic Tinseltown ending to a televised trial that was followed as avidly as a soap opera. They awarded Burnett a whopping $1.6 million in damages in her libel suit against the sensation-seeking National Enquirer (circ. 5,100,000). Said the relieved star: "There...
...stress-tests the people she interviews. Her method makes most interviews on American television seem tepid. Only William F. Buckley Jr., with the practiced assurance of a Catholic debater, similarly confronts his subjects as an equal in discourse (and sometimes barely conceals his suspicion that he is the intellectual superior). Bill Moyers is apt to be overrespectful, perhaps because he often interviews people he admires. Mike Wallace so single-mindedly bears in on someone's vulnerability that he rarely shows the person in the round...
...Vietnamese people fully realize now that the system they lost (even though there was need for great improvement) is much superior to the alternative the Communists keep boasting about to the world. I regret my delayed expression of appreciation for the American sacrifices in Viet...
...since the Lee Marvin "palimony" case has a Hollywood courtroom drama attracted such attention. As an expectant crowd lined the corridors at Los Angeles County superior court last week, Actress-Comedian Carol Burnett arrived for the first day of proceedings in her $10 million libel suit against the sensationalist weekly tabloid the National Enquirer (circ. 5.1 million). Said a determined-looking Burnett: "I'm very happy to be here. It's like a five-year-old toothache and I'm finally at the dentist...