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After naming a Chief Justice and three Associates to the Supreme Court, Ronald Reagan can hardly complain that it is not to his liking. But last week the court proved again how frustratingly independent it can be, decisively upholding the special prosecutors who have bedeviled Reagan's second term. In the process, it also cleared the way for the upcoming trials of the Iran- contra Four: Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. Says Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who sponsored the independent- counsel legislation: "It's a slam-dunk decision...
...frustration in Scalia's tone was one sign of the ambiguous results of Reagan's effort to nudge the high bench to the right. In the term just ended, the Justices sent out mixed signals on everything from privacy rights to criminal law. Consider some of last week's other notable decisions...
...major thing on the Dukakis side is that he lacks Washington experience, and I'm not sure if [first-term Florida Senator Robert Graham] has enough experience on Capitol Hill," Peterson said. "That makes some people in Washington like Lee Hamilton...
Gorbachev floated a variety of trial balloons before the conference, such as the notion that party officials should be limited to two five-year terms in office. At his first mention of that idea last year, he was careful not to include the powerful Central Committee or Politburo in the suggestion. But the & concept caught on and is now part of the reform proposals to be aired at the meeting. Gorbachev himself, as well as all Central Committee and Politburo members, would presumably be subject to the two-term limit, though there is a controversial loophole: officeholders...
Although Dukakis was considered too liberal on crime during his first term, he has worked hard to reverse that image. In the past four years, the violent- crime rate in Massachusetts has dropped 13.4% while the national rate has risen 1.8%. Today the state has the lowest homicide rate of any major industrial state in the country. In 1983 Dukakis formed a special anticrime task council, and he has chaired every one of the group's 58 meetings. "His record against crime now can't be disputed," says Ned Merrick, legislative representative of the state's police association...