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...Health Services, a St. Louis clinic that challenged the Missouri law in the high court, and other private facilities remain open. The closing of publicly subsidized facilities could be construed as a back-door way to deny otherwise permissible abortions to the poor. No restrictions are ever likely to thwart the ability of the well-to-do to arrange abortions...
B.A.S.S. adheres to a strong environmental program, which mandates the release of tournament bass. The company has imposed tight safeguards to prevent cheating: anglers are randomly paired before setting out, and their boats are inspected at dockside to thwart any attempt to sneak large pre- caught fish aboard...
...subcommittee's chairman, Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr., says the IRS has become so consumed with preserving its reputation that it is using Section 6103's confidentiality provisions to thwart congressional scrutiny of alleged misconduct. Citing Section 6103, IRS officials have refused to turn over confidential files about the Jordache affair and other cases. "We are handicapped from doing the oversight job that Congress has determined we should do," says Barnard, a conservative former banker...
...public has been sharply divided about North since the scandal burst into the headlines in 1986. While many consider him a rogue who set out to thwart the lawful conduct of foreign policy, others are convinced that North is a patriotic pawn swept up in what he called a "chess game played by giants." The heart of his defense was that his actions were approved by such superiors as Reagan, former National Security Advisers Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter and the late CIA Director William Casey...
Singles by Crowley and Bev Armstrong brought Ellen Cox to the plate with two on and two out. The senior sent a bullet into left field which seemed destined for extra bases. But Maine's Barbara Bento made a terrific over-the-head grab to once again thwart the Harvard offense...