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...director of the Central Intelligence Agency, WILLIAM WEBSTER, was spotted last week on a golf course in northern Michigan. On one round, Webster shot...
...worsening corruption and repression led to substantial aid cuts, from $76 million in 1985 to $11 million this year. But Doe seemed indifferent to his country's growing bankruptcy. U.S. officials still urged reform, but Doe, who often consults a shaman, responded to one overture from CIA director William Webster by offering him a magic powder...
...this kind of on-one-hand, on-the-other-hand aspect of Souter's behavior that has thrown the likely combatants over a new Justice into disarray. Souter gave a commencement address at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H., in 1976 in which he called affirmative-action rules "affirmative discrimination" and said the government has no place meddling in such initiatives. He flew across the state by helicopter to make ; sure protesters who were arrested for demonstrating against the Seabrook nuclear power plant were forced to serve actual jail terms rather than suspended sentences. He tends to rule in favor...
EVER SINCE last summer's Webster v. Reproductive Health Services decision, the Republican party has been in a precarious position on abortion. Although their national platform is strictly anti-abortion, Republican leaders have been wary of alienating their pro-choice candidates--some of whom are proven vote-getters and long-term incumbents...
...game has been played for higher stakes since the Webster case last year, in which the court gave states wider latitude to restrict abortion. O'Connor's position was more decisive -- and uncomfortable -- than ever. She voted in favor of the Missouri statute under review (which forbids the use of state funds for abortions). But she balked at the opportunity to let history record that the Supreme Court's first woman was also the one who provided the crucial vote to end abortion rights. "There will be time enough to re-examine Roe," she wrote, "and to do so carefully...