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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a major ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment that bans laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination. The 6-3 ruling Monday is the biggest legal victory to date for gay-rights activists, and signals a major shift by the court since its last major gay-rights ruling. In 1986, the Court was blatantly contemptuous of a constitutional challenge to Georgia's sodomy law. "This is a huge decision," TIME correspondent Wendy Cole reports, adding that gay-rights groups had been braced for a defeat. "It will be very interesting to see how local municipalities...
...offices, Tatiana is calling some of the key shots and signing off on some very American tactics. "She immediately grasped that sending 'truth squads' to taunt Zyuganov would appeal to Russians," says a Yeltsin adviser, "and she's championed the use of direct mail." The largest to date was a mailing three weeks ago to 3 million women veterans thanking them for their heroism and asking their forgiveness for the current economic hardships. Each was signed by Yeltsin (albeit by autopen) and individually addressed to the women. In the U.S., where voters are inundated by such mailings, they are mostly...
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Your Senate leave taking provided that most satisfying of political moments, when the words are as big as the event. Forget the June departure date, leave now and for good. You made a dramatic exit. To go back in the next three weeks and haggle is to blur the picture and confuse the public. Don't step on your own applause line: it's over, the tie is off, go West...
...managed occasionally to earn a bit of money, he did so by editing a not very successful soft-porn magazine called Hot Dog). The super-American, his daughter learns, was born not in Ohio, as he claimed, but in Vilna, Lithuania, five years earlier than his supposed birth date. The Jewish convert to right-wing Catholicism, Mary finds, was never accepted as anything but a Jew by his wife's Irish Catholic family. Most pathetically, perhaps, the father remembered as young, dashing and handsome--her Jimmy Stewart, the daughter says--is toothless, potbellied and old in the snapshots she digs...