Battle continues as Bork rejection shakes Senate
The Senate voted 58 to 42 to reject Judge Robert Bork for the Supreme Court. The fight centered on judiciary independence amid a heated, highly partisan campaign that critics call a brutal political charade. President Reagan vows a swift, learned conservative successor.
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Robert Bork
Supreme Court
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Federal
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Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
Reagan
Dispatch
Lewis Powell
High Court
Earl Warren
Joe Biden
Ted Kennedy
Military Success Story: High School Grad Enlistees Top 90 Percent
The Pentagon reports over 90 percent of new military enlistees are high school graduates for the fifth straight year. The editorial notes this quality shift, lower AWOL rates, and better pay and benefits driving reenlistment, while warning the 18 to 21 cohort will shrink to 6.6 million by 1999. It argues for a balanced approach beyond reintroducing peacetime conscription.
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Armed Forces
U.S
Intolerance undermines AIDS fight in Washington march
Stephen Chapman argues the Oct. 12 AIDS march shows how anti gay sentiment hampers public health aims. Critics link funding to broader gay rights backlash while violence against gays rises and political opportunism surfaces in education and policy debates.
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Jesse Helms
North Carolina
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Helms
Senate
Wall Street Madness Echoes Market Turmoil and Expert Skepticism
In a satirical take Tribune Media Service notes Wall Street's frantic trading and wild swings as analysts warn of persistent anxiety and deficits. The piece mocks experts in dark suits while recalling past crashes and comic headlines. It cites headlines about wars deficits and rumors as illustrations of market lunacy.
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Irv
Fish House
Uncle Stanley
Persian Gulf
Mars
America
Two-Year Nightmare Ends for Joel Harris in Mississippi
A Mississippi man, Joel Harris, faced a two year series of lineup identifications in six incidents in multiple counties. Witnesses once named him, but alibis and multiple drops kept him free. A second suspect, Sammy Ross, now faces one incident charge and links Harris to the other cases. Harris lives under daily scrutiny, diary kept, fearing solitude as his wife accompanies him.
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Sammy Ross
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