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...race for Jepsen's Senate seat has been a see-saw battle of Iowa mudslinging, cheap shots, and groin kicks. Jepsen's advertisements have stopped just short of accusing his opponent of treason, while one of Harkin's better known television commercials shows a close-up of a snorting hog while a voice over accuses Jepsen of insensitivity...
...Justices can be removed only by House impeachment and Senate conviction on charges of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." None have been. - Every West European country permits abortion, at least after rape or to save the life of the mother. - Ernesto Miranda was set free in 1966 when the Supreme Court overruled his conviction for rape and kidnaping because he had not been informed of his rights. Miranda was later retried by the state for rape, found guilty and sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in Arizona State Prison. Paroled in 1972, he was stabbed...
...little tenderness. That seems to be the philosophy behind the Polish government's decision last week to free 652 of the country's political prisoners. Despite grumbling from Communist Party hardliners, the amnesty bill was passed by the parliament 365 to 4. Only those arrested for treason, spying and sabotage will not be released. Among the freed will be seven leaders of the outlawed Solidarity trade-union movement who have been in jail since December 1981, when martial law was declared. The regime of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski is now spared the embarrassment of continuing the two-week...
...orator, Woodhull bowed to no man. "We mean treason; we mean secession..." she declared. "We are plotting revolution; we will [overthrow] this bogus Republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead." When someone dared to ask whether she practiced her preachings of free love, she defiantly answered, "Yes! I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may." Some suffragists were embarrassed by Woodhull's flamboyance, but Stanton said, "If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes...
...overly reverent script than in Robards' characterization. Glenda Jackson, making a rare U.S. TV performance, brings a few moments of passion to her role as Yelena. In one scene, she chillingly describes the courtroom cheers that greeted a death sentence handed out to some Jewish friends charged with treason. But Jackson too seems weighed down by the burden of secular sainthood. In a typical exchange, Sakharov laments the expulsion of his stepdaughter from the university. "They're punishing our children for what we do," he says. Responds Yelena: "What we do is right...