Word: virginia
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Reagan was paraphrasing quotes from a book, On Watch, by Retired Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Navy chief, which will be published in June. Zumwalt is running on the Democratic ticket for U.S. Senator in Virginia, and his platform consists largely of attacks on Kissinger. The admiral says that Kissinger made the statement to him on a train going to the 1970 Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia and again during a talk in 1972. Kissinger declared through an aide that the statement was "pure invention and totally irresponsible." The Secretary has often spoken pessimistically in private about...
Whatever the outcome of the death penalty argument, the Supreme Court rendered a surprising and unexplained decision in a different sphere of law last week: sodomy. By a vote of 6 to 3 the high court summarily ruled that a Virginia sodomy statute was constitutional. That action, unaccompanied by any written opinion, left civil libertarians and homosexual activists thunderstruck...
...court in recent years has been expanding the right to privacy in sexual matters, and sodomy laws seemed a plausible next target. American Civil Liberties Union lawyers for John Doe and Robert Roe, two anonymous homosexuals, decided to challenge the Virginia statute before a Richmond three-judge federal panel, though the two had not been charged with any offense...
Hank Williams, Jr. was barely two years old on the December night his father died in the back seat of a Cadillac in southern West Virginia, minutes after finishing his last gig. Williams pere casts an awesome shadow over country music--"Jambalaya," "Hey Good Lookin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" have entered the pantheon of American popular music...
During the team's spring trip to Florida, one of its vehicles of transportation was stopped for speeding in Maryland on the way south, and on the way back home, the driver of this same car was arrested for reckless driving in Virginia, but was released from bail after convincing the arresting officer that he had learned his lesson...