Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bedroom. The officers checked and found Hardwick with another man.) Although the prosecution dropped the sodomy charge, Hardwick sued for a ruling on Georgia's law that prohibits "any sex act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another" and provides a prison term of up to 20 years. The case reached the Supreme Court this spring. A Georgia assistant attorney general argued that a ruling protecting private homosexual and heterosexual acts between consenting adults would undermine the state's efforts to maintain a "decent and moral society" and would open...
...number of Americans refuse to join the celebratory chorus of Ronald Reagan's second term. They feel alienated from a political system in which they feel they have no voice. They feel threatened by the elaborate technology of surveillance and intrusion now available, by the data banks, credit checks and mandatory drug tests on the job. Tom Hayden, the '60s activist who led the Students for a Democratic Society and is now a California assemblyman, takes a slightly mellower view. "I think this country is freer than I thought true in the 1960s," he says. He worries about the perennial...
...relationship with the U.S. for 40 years. Argued Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican who heads the Foreign Relations Committee: "If the Senate were to cut the President off at the knees in today's vote, a very large loser would be Israel." His rationale was that over the long term, Israel benefits from a close U.S. relationship with some Arab states. Lugar also noted that when the U.S. backed away from a sale of advanced military aircraft to the Saudi government of King Fahd last year, the Saudis simply shopped elsewhere, striking a deal that may eventually be worth...
...87th Precinct series: "For me, 'hard-boiled' means not turning away from a dead body and going into the hall to vomit. It means going into a morgue and smelling a stench that makes you want to wash your hands for days." In short, unflinching realism, a misunderstood term. Says Elmore Leonard, the macabre ironist of crime and punishment: "If I were to ever write a private-eye story, and try to make it as realistic as the stories I do write, what would he do? Private detectives don't do that much. You gather information in divorce cases...
...cost Ed Zschau $3.2 million, but he did it. Starting from near obscurity and facing a dozen rivals, the two-term Congressman won California's Republican Senate nomination last week with a 37% plurality. The Silicon Valley businessman spent $2 million on advertising, much of it devoted to teaching voters how to pronounce his name (like the first syllable in shower). In a display of post-primary solidarity, Zschau and his six key competitors sat down after his victory for a unity lunch in Los Angeles, where he discussed strategy against three-term Democratic Incumbent Alan Cranston...