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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme
|Court’s slow journey toward conservatism over
[the past two decades became a quick-paced
irch in its 1988-89 term, with Chief Justice Wil
liam H. Rehnquist leading and Ronald Reagan’s
three appointees right with him.
The Rehnquist court came of age as it cut back
abortion rights, curtailed affirmative action for
women and minorities, limited other civil rights
protections, condoned mandatory drug testing
1P®Iand permitted capital punishment for juvenile
^“Band retarded killers.
j Justice Anthony M. Kennedy tipped the bal-
Eance of power. In his first full term, he solidified
H d 0 J a comparatively youthful conservative majority
ficar rl t ^ iat P reva 'l e( l * n a series of important 5-4 votes.
• J Thus with three appointments, former Presi-
th mdcut Reagan accomplished what Richard M.
™ Nixon failed to do with four — fundamentally
reshape the nation’s highest court, and perhaps
the future of American law as well.
Reagan named Sandra Day O’Connor to the
|court in 1981. then promoted Rehnnuist and ap-
ANALYSIS
pointed Antonin Scalia in 1986 after Chief Jus
tice Warren E. Burger retired. Kennedy joined
them early last year.
Allied with Rehnquist and Byron R. White,
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Conservatives two years ago were panning
Rehnquist’s first term as chief justice, dejectedly
admitting that he had been outmaneuvered and
overshadowed by William J. Brennan, the court’s
leading liberal.
Rehnquist clearly assumed a leadership role
the next year, but not without joining in some
surprising rulings that sparked commentators to
say he had moderated his staunchly conservative
ideology.
“Statesmanlike” is what some conservatives
called Rehnquist’s performance in the court’s
1987-88 term.
But Kennedy’s votes in the just-completed
term allowed Rehnquist to be Rehnquist again,
standard-bearer for the causes conservatives
hold most dear.
Two major exceptions to the court’s conserva
tive path through the 1970s and 1980s — abor
tion and civil rights — are exceptions no more.
Waiting until the last day of the 1988-89 term
to announce a decision in its mostly closely
watched case of the decade, the court gave states
far greater power to regulate abortion.
The immediate impact: Abortions are likely to
become harder to get.
The implications: It now appears much more
likely the court will reverse its 1973 decision, in
Roe vs. Wade, that women have a constitutional
right to abortion.
Reversal, which could come as early as next
year, would allow states to outlaw most abortions.
A clear majority — Rehnquist, White, Scalia,
Kennedy and O’Connor — believe Roe vs. Wade
was wrongly decided.
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Voyager 2 nears
Neptune for last
stop on project
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) —
Twelve years, three planets and
4.4 billion miles after leaving
Earth, Voyager 2 is converging
on Neptune, a swirling, blue-
green planet with a backward
moon, for the last stop on an ex
traordinary tour.
“The solar system is our neigh
borhood, and we’re getting to the
end of the neighborhood,” said
Norm Haynes, Voyager project
manager at the National Aero
nautics and Space Admnistra-
tion’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Voyager 2 already has detected
a dark spot on Neptune that may
be a giant storm like Jupiter’s
Great Red Spot. As it nears the
planet, the probe will search for
undiscovered moons and partial
rings. And at 9 p.m. PDT on Aug.
24, Voyager will swoop within
3,000 miles of Neptune’s north
pole cloudtops — the closest of its
close encounters and the first
spacecraft to visit the planet.
It will be 2.75 billion miles
from Earth after traveling 4.43
billion miles along its curving
path. The information it sends
back at the speed of light will take
about four hours to arrive.
Five hours after the closest en
counter, Voyager will fly within
25,000 miles of the backwards-or
biting moon, Triton. The other
known moon is Nereid.
Voyager 1 and 2, laden with
TV cameras and an array of sen
sors, were launched from Cape
Canaveral in 1977. They visited
Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in
1980 and 1981, respectively.
Man makes 2nd attempt to burn
U.S. flag at Little Rock capitol
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man trying to burn the American flag on the steps
of the Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock was thwarted
Tuesday in his second attempt.
Activist Robert “Say” McIntosh, 45, of Little Rock
said he would make a third attempt to burn the flag
there Sunday to show that there is not justice for all in
the United States.
His son, Robert McIntosh Jr., 27, said he managed to
set a flag on fire in a Capitol corridor, but nobody saw
it. The younger McIntosh was among at least five peo
ple arrested by police after two shoving matches on the
Capitol steps.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that flag
burning is a constitutionally protected right of free
speech.
The younger McIntosh, also of Little Rock, was in
jured when he and companions emerged from the
building carrying a charred flag and tried to burn it in a
metal trash barrel. He received a bloody gash on the
forehead and was taken in handcuffs to a Little Rock
police car.
The younger McIntosh was charged with disorderly
conduct and resisting arrest, and was arranging $350
bond, said Pulaski County Sheriffs Department spokes
man Sherry Rainey.
About 500 people had gathered in front of the Capi
tol to protest McIntosh’s planned flag-burning.
About 50 uniformed officers — state police, Capitol
police, and Little Rock officers stood in a line across the
lower steps of the Capitol.
The activist marched with a half-dozen companions
to the spot where his first demonstration ended in a fist-
fight last week.
McIntosh got to the steps, and a metal trash barrel he
intended to use to burn the flag was grabbed by the
throng. A few punches were thrown, officers moved in,
and McIntosh was rushed inside the second-floor Capi
tol doors, wearing handcuffs.
Soviets reprimanded for MiG crash
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)—West
Germany, the Netherlands and Bel
gium sharply criticized the Soviet
Union Wednesday for not inform
ing them sooner about the pilotless
MiG-23 fighter jet that careened out
of control over their territory.
A NATO commander joined the
Netherlands and Belgium in calling
for better East-West cooperation to
avoid such incidents.
The Soviet fighter plane took off
Tuesday from Poland on a training
flight, but its pilot ejected after a me
chanical problem developed, accord
ing to Tass, the official Soviet news
agency. The jet, apparently still on
automatic pilot, entered West Ger
many, crossed the Netherlands and
crashed Tuesday in Belgium, killing
one man in his home.
NATO officials said two U.S. Air
Force F-15 aircraft shadowed the
MiG as it flew for 560 miles over the
three NATO countries but did not
try to shoot it down for fear of
spreading flaming debris over cities.
“You can’t just go up and shoot
the plane down,” said Lt. Col. Ber
nard Beck, a spokesman for Allied
Forces Central Europe in Ramstein,
West Germany.
“West Germany is densely pop
ulated and you don’t know where
the plane will fall if you shoot it
down at 30,000 feet. The risk factor
is too great.”
About 75 minutes elapsed be
tween the time NATO first detected
the plane and the time it crashed.
West Germany, the Netherlands
and Belgium protested they had to
wait more than 10 hours before Tass
provided Moscow’s first reaction to
the incident.
A military report to the Soviet
Parliament said commanders
learned within 90 seconds the pilot
had bailed out but they were still
searching for the plane ^when its
crash was reported.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorba
chev, who is on an official visit to
France, said: “I regret this incident.
The Belgians know. The Belgians
know the cause. This type of acci
dent can happen.”
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