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While Weinberger was still in Brussels, Reagan convened the National Security Council Planning Group last Tuesday to reach a final decision. Deputy Defense Secretary William Taft, sitting in for his boss, repeated the Pentagon case that there was no need at the moment for a new proposal, and that the terms had to be more favorable to the U.S. But Chief of Naval Operations James Watkins, representing the JCS, said the Joint Chiefs did not find the plan detrimental to U.S. military interests. Having put the numbers through the & wringer, he said, the military brass found them acceptable...
...event is memorable not only for its comprehensive display of early flying contrivances, but also for its group of celebrity spectators. Among the show's thousands of observers were President Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor Draper of Massachusetts, the mayor of Boston, and President Lowell of Harvard...
...Reagan would have to name a replacement for Liberals Brennan or Marshall or sometime Liberals Blackmun or John Paul Stevens, seemingly in his prime at 64. During the 1984 campaign, both sides noted that the winner probably would join a short list of very fortunate Presidents--Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Taft and Franklin Roosevelt--whom fate allowed to mold the court in their own images. For that reason, says Tribe, normally a critic of the Burger era, "I'm for mandatory life-support systems for the current court." But no such emergency intervention is necessary for the moment. The present high...
...Supreme Court, Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62. Rehnquist's argument is dubious at best. He says that "Reagan can certainly find judges who are ideologically predictable." He goes on to cite the example of the Hughes Court which contained six appointees of the conservative President Taft. In the 1930's these by then old men struck down piece after piece of New Deal legislation in what the professor describes as the "Dark Age of the Supreme Court...
...Year junior JOE CARRABINO sparked the men's basketball team's drive from the collar to second in the league: Coach BILL CLEARY, PETER FOLLOWS (24) and the rest of the men's hockey squad took another Ivy title men's swimming snagged as sixth consecutive Eastern championship: DEB TAFT and the women's hockey team raised to a 12-92 mark PETER DINEEN helped out in the men's squash squad's successful defense of its six-man and nine man national crowns, the women's water polo team and displayed intensity, gaining varsity status...