Crack babies and a tough love plan in Charleston
A South Carolina program aimed at cocaine using pregnant women reduced positive tests from 24 to five or six monthly, with prenatal care unchanged. Litigation claimed racial discrimination, and federal funding threats led to abandonment of the effort, leaving neonates again at risk. Public officials valued community solutions but faced federal pushback.
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Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston
Center For Reproductive
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HHS
Clinton
South Carolina
Japan yields in auto trade talks to avert trade war
The Clinton administration faced a risky path in reshaping Japan's auto and auto parts market. Japan agreed to voluntary measures, avoiding WTO scrutiny and a potential open clash. The deal preserves sovereignty concerns for critics but prevents job losses among 81,000 workers at 2,000 dealers and adds 200 U.S. built autos per year for five years.
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Clinton
U.S
Mickey Kantor
Japan
World Trade Organization
International Organization
WTO
Ross Perot
Pat Buchanan
Supreme Court Drug Testing in Schools Sparks Privacy Debate
Stephen Chapman argues the Vernonia Oregon ruling erodes student privacy, allowing random urine tests for seventh and eighth graders and all athletes. The piece criticizes the rationale, calls for individualized suspicion, and likens surveillance to Big Brother in a period-voiced critique of government overreach.
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George Orwell
Supreme Court
James Acton
Vernonia
Ore
Sandra Day O’connor
Antonin Scalia
Scalia
Leavenworth
Stephen Chapman
The
Chicago Tribune
The Info Highway and the ATM Skeptic
Jeff Greenfield questions the urgency of the information highway and the interactivity hype. He argues ATMs reveal basic tech hurdles and doubts a universal, easy to use system will emerge soon. He suggests a modest view of the future and visits a local bank to reflect.
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Jeff Greenfield
Flag Desecration Debate Sees Senators Push Amendment
Nat Hentoff argues against a proposed constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration, citing Justice Jackson on First Amendment rights and the need to protect minority liberties. He contrasts supporters like Orrin Hatch and Henry Hyde with Supreme Court precedent and warns of majoritarian overreach amid 49 states backing the measure.
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Orrin Hatch
Utah
Congress
United States
Henry Hyde
R-Il
Melvin Watt
D-N.c
Congressional Record
Robert Jackson
Supreme Court
Texas
Washington Post
Ivan Warner
Washington
Warner
Vermont
Nat Hentoff
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Journal
John R. Graham
Patrick Holmes
Dennis A. Frazier
Billie Heuser
Freedon Newspaper
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Lex
Seinfeld
Hatch, Hyde
Newt Gin
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