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DIED. William French Smith, 73, who served Ronald Reagan as a personal lawyer in California and then as U.S. Attorney General; of cancer; in Los Angeles. As Attorney General from 1981 to 1985, Smith championed efforts to weaken civil rights laws and antitrust enforcement. His most historic act: advocating the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Teeter. Both men told Bush that his attempts to hang the budget mess on the Democrats looked defensive and that he would do better to change the subject. "Let's remind people that we've got some good things accomplished," a third adviser recommended. "Talk about the Clean Air Act. Talk about the gulf, which is more presidential. Above all, be yourself...
Sullivan has faced heavy protest from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) in past visits to the College, although the Boston-based chapter of the group was not present at last night's dinner. ACT-UP has demanded that Sullivan use his influence to relax immigration laws to allow individuals infected with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus into the country...
California law specifically states that a person who is "unconscious of the nature of the act" of sex cannot legally give consent. Thus, said Wahlig, anyone who has sex with an intoxicated person in effect commits statutory rape...
According to the speakers, timber wolves are nearly extinct, and qualify for protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Environmental groups nationwide are currently attempting to relocate the wolves to public lands within the Rocky Mountain region, their original territory...