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Manion supporters respond that the real reasons for opposition to his candidacy are political. ''He's a target of opportunity,'' says Patrick McGuigan of the right-leaning 721 Group. ''He's probably the most conservative of the pending crop'' of judicial nominations. In the Indiana senate, Manion co-sponsored legislation to permit public schools to post the Ten Commandments just two months after the Supreme Court had struck down a Kentucky law that required such posting. He sometimes appeared on a radio and TV show with his father Clarence, a former dean of the Notre Dame Law School...
...arrested. Their names were revealed in a number of outlets on Oct. 29. Ian Strachan, aged 30, was described by the mass market daily, The Mirror, as "a Scots-born businessman" and by its larger rival, The Sun, as a "socialite smoothie." The other was identified as Sean McGuigan, aged 40, said to be Irish and, according to his neighbor quoted in the Evening Standard, "rough...
...Strachan and McGuigan are due to appear in court on Dec. 20. The gag order obtained by the CPS is not time-limited and could, in theory, continue to restrict reporting of the case in the U.K. through to its conclusion. According to a story in The Sun of Oct. 30, the royal at the center of the case "is on the brink of going public." A Buckingham Palace source quoted in the paper expressed concerns about the wider damage to the reputation of the royal family and added "the secrecy surrounding the case is simply fuelling it into something...
...years. The situation is so bad that the group petitioned the government to pay severely affected farmers not to grow grapes. (The government, which frequently gripes about the handouts Europe gives its farmers, refused.) "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years," says Brian McGuigan, an industry veteran and former managing director of McGuigan Simeon Wines, the nation's second largest wine firm. Viewed from Australia, the French measures seem timid and slow. Australia's 20 biggest winemakers account for 85% of the market, and they have reacted much faster to the crisis, cutting prices...
...alcohol, Australia has no government-subsidized buyer to bail wineries out. Mark McKenzie, executive director of the wine-grape growers trade group, says incomes for some growers have fallen 60% in the past two years. "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years," says Brian McGuigan, an industry veteran and founder of McGuigan Simeon Wines, the nation's second largest firm...