University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 16, 1987
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Nation/World
Anti-abortionists split on judicial nominee
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Anthony M. Kennedy's Supreme Court nomination has split the antiabortion community, even though he has never ruled on an abortion case during 12 years on the bench.
One anti-abortion organization offered positive but guarded praise for the nomination, a second strongly criticized it and two other groups took no position.
The abortion question is crucial to these groups and to pro-choice organizations because the court is considered split 4-4 on the issue. The next nominee could tip the balance for years to come.
Pro-choice groups and other women's organi-
zations have taken no position, not on Kornati
The Sacramento, Calif., jurist, who is on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has not spoken out on any issue since his nomination was announced Wednesday by President Reagan. None of the organizations researching his abortion record has found any previous comment on the subject.
The anti-abortion National Right To Life Committee reacted positively toward Kennedy because he favors judicial restraint or interpreting the law, not making it. The organization said only a judicial activist would favor a decision such as Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
The league referred to the only instance in more than 400 written opinions that Kennedy mentioned the abortion ruling.
But another anti-abortion group, the American Life League, said that it mistrusts anyone the Reagan White House would nominate for the court and that it opposes Kennedy because he didn't criticize the Roe decision during the one chance he had to do so.
That was in 1980, when Kennedy wrote for a three-judge panel in the case of Beller vs. Middendorf. The ruling upheld former Navy regulations calling for the automatic discharge of sailors who engaged in homosexual conduct. Kennedy cited Roe in that ruling without making any comment, favorable or unfavorable.
Paul Brown, chief executive officer of the league, said the decision proves that Kennedy is bad on his own record in dealing with Roe vs. Wade, but he is sitting the decision, he legitimizes the decision.[15]
Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right To Life Committee, disagreed.
"In our view, the Middendorf ruling reveals little one way or the other about Judge Kerry's views on the Supreme Court precedence regarding abortion." Johnson said
Brown said he also distrusts any nominee the White House picks for the court.
“Our problem is we don't trust the Wnne House in any way, shape or form.” Brown said. “I am not going to take good old boy assurances about knowing where this guy stands on Roe vs. Wade.
"After years of trying, they have finally mastered incompetence: I don't care if they nominate a screaming liberal. As long as he's pro-life, we back him."
But Johnson said, "We are pleased that Judge Kennedy has a general commitment to
judicial restraint, even though he has never taken a specific position on Roe vs. Wade.
"We recognize that Roe v. Wade is the product of judicial activism and has no basis in the text or history of the Constitution. Roe vs. Wade survive an honest reading of the Constitution.
Brown said that Johnson's anti-abortion group was "an arm of the Republican Party. Whatever the White House says, they do. They're invited into the White House. Big deal
"Don't give me this judicial restraint nonsense. We want to know where the guy stands."
"Therefore, we believe that Roe vs. Wade will be reversed when there is a majority of Supreme Court justices who are committed to judicial restraint," Johnson said.
Brown said the league is sending its 300,000 members a fact sheet that quotes people who know Judge Kennedy and who told the league that Kennedy does not appear to be pro-life and he basically favors Roe vs. Wade.
Gorbachev's firing of official generates reform questions
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's dramatic break with one of his top lieutenants toughens his image in the weeks before a superpower summit, but casts doubt on how far his drive for reform can and will go.
Analysis
The firing of Boris N. Yeltsin, the outspoken Moscow party boss, seems certain to temper the approach to "perrostraki," Gorbachev's campaign for social and economic change that Yeltsin had vocally advocated
a Kremlin speech this month.
By presiding over Yeltsin's downfall Wednesday, Gorbachev put his stamp on the ouster of his former protege. It remains a question whether he did so to remove a minister who was under pressure from the party's supporters or official officials, reportedly led by Politburo member Yegor K. Ligachey.
Whatever Gorbachev's motives, the removal of the outspoken Yeltsin from the Moscow leadership post and two city government positions will bolster the course of "revolutionary restraint" espoused by Gorbachev in
Yeltsin had developed an image, deserved or not, as a radical advocate of change within limits set by the Soviet one-party system.
His removal may inject a wariness among Soviet officials and citizens, who have been encouraged under the reforms to speak out and seek novel ways to solve their country's problems.
“Are the policies intact? Are people going to believe it when one of the most vigorous proponents falls by the door?” Mr. Obama asked Friday. “We’ll have to wait and see.”
He spoke on the condition of anonymity.
For almost two years, the dynamic, wavy-haired Yeltsin spearheaded calls for greater candor in society and efficiency in government and the economy.
The 56-year-old Yeltsin introduced subjects that were once taboo, such as the existence of special food stores and services for the party and government elite. He used mass transit and made unannounced visits to bread stores to see if the products being sold were fresh.
But in an Oct. 21 speech at a closed-door meeting of the party
Central Committee, Yeltsin said the reform drive had stalled in the capital, criticized the leadership and offered his resignation.
On Wednesday, Yeltsin was brought before the Moscow party committee, accused of "major short-comings" and fired in disgrace.
Speeches by Gorbachev and Moscow Communists rebuking Yeltsin were later published in extraordinary detail in Pravda, the party daily, apparently serving as his political obituary.
Subordinates accused Yeltsin of showboating, wrecking the party apparatus and blaming others for his faults. By reporting their comments, the party hierarchy seemed bent on eliminating support for Yeltsin among Soviet citizens.
However, Gorbachev and some other officials seemed concerned that the harsh treatment dealt to Yeltsin might make other functionaries balk before speaking their mind or acting, and moved to limit the damage.
"There must be in the party neither the areas closed to criticism nor officials immune against it," Gorbachev said.
Wisconsin plan a first
Program fights welfare dependency
The Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — In an effort to keep one generation of welfare recipients from raising another, Wisconsin is launching a first-of-its-kind program to cut a family's welfare benefits if a teen-ager skips school.
State officials hope the program, known as learnfire, will shrink high school dropout rates and encourage inner-city youths who have already dropped out to return to classes. They note that people in these regions need to age spend half the time on welfare of those without a diploma.
However, critics say learnfare will penalize whole families for an unruly teen-ager and amounts to a rejection on society's most dependent.
'It's a win for the state, it's a win for the families, it's a win for the kids.' Gov. Tommy G. Thompson said.
"It gives them an opportunity they wouldn't have by dropping out of school," said Thompson, who came up with the idea during his campaign for governor last year. "It's got to work."
have received a waiver of federal welfare rules to try learnfare.
Under a compromise reached between Democratic legislators and the Republican Thompson administration last week, the families of about 12,000 teen-agers ages 13 and 14 will fall under the learnfire program Jan. 1. The families of another 18,000 or so who are 15 and older will be subject to its provisions Sept. 1. There are about 300,000 people in the state on children's care. Children. Teen-agers 15 and older will be subject to the plan Jan. 1 if they are parents themselves.
Sanctions against families will be delayed for three months, and a family would only lose the share of its welfare grant that is for the truant youth.
Wisconsin is the only state to
The program also provides day care to allow teen-age mothers to attend school.
Learnfare caught a lot of criticism on its way to becoming law.
"This is an experiment with human beings who are poor," said Assembly Speaker Thomas Lofus, a Democrat. "The only reason we are able to experiment with them is that they are poor."
O'Neill enters hospital to have surgery
Cancer reports false,son says
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Former House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr, left a Washington hospital yesterday and was admitted to a Boston hospital for surgery, hospital officials said
Reports Saturday in the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald said the former speaker had cancer of the large intestine. The Globe, quoting an unidentified source close to the family, said a biopsy would be performed on a section of O'Neill's brain, but no expert was sure whether the organ should be surgically removed or treated with radiation.
O'Neill is scheduled to undergo surgery of the rectum in several days, said Kathleen O'Donnell, spokenwoman for Brigham and Women's Hospital. It was premature to try to determine whether the surgery was for cancer.
One of O'Neill's sons, Christopher R "Kip" Hickaway, a Washington attorney, declined comment on the published reports. He said, however, that his father felt fine and was in good spirits.
But his brother, Thomas P. O'Neill III, said Friday that reports of his father's cancer were incorrect.
O'Neil, 74, lives on Cape Cod, Mass., with his wife, Millie. He has maintained an office in Boston and a home in Washington since retiring in January after 35 years in Congress.
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