NO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Planned Parenthood Republican State Representative Henry Aldridge of North Carolina, defending a bill to eliminate the state abortion fund for poor women from the budget: "The facts...
...Civics Lesson An Associated Press item from Southington, Connecticut: "The manager of an ice cream store was suspended after refusing a customer's request to write 'Happy Birthday' in Spanish on a cake____Anna Dick-low had gone to the Carvel store Saturday to get an ice cream cake with a Spanish 'Happy Birthday' greeting for her eighty-year-old father...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...the Senate defeated Mr...
...In two recent situations, we have responded to requests for information from Congress by asking a single staff group to prepare information...
...It rained anyway...
...One of the most recent calls was, 'You are all going to die,' Bill McNulty, general manager of KCKC-AM, said____The 5,000-watt station had carried Liddy for about two years, to balance a liberal talk-show host it also features...
...Don't Ask An item in the Wisconsin State Journal, datelined Washington: "The Air Force Academy has dropped all aspects of survival training related to complaints that cadets were being forced to realistically simulate rape...
...told my wife after that, "Well, he must have had some good in him," ' said Wilmer Hale, seventy, the nephew of the man Jernigan killed...
...Smith tried to persuade the Senate to amend the resolution to exclude the elephants...
...Boyd, who has been predicting such things for eighteen years, refused...
...These incidents have been identified as the personifications of 'linear' as opposed to 'horizontal' behavior in the organization...
...Smith's effort...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Frontlines of the Drug War Radio reporter Sonia Salgado of San Juan, Puerto Rico, after crowding into a Capitol bathroom with other journalists to watch Senator Freddie Valentin, responding to drug allegations, try to urinate into a cup: "I have just transmitted, for the first time ever, a senator taking a pee before the media...
...Instead of a chance of rain, which would discourage people from attending, why not say the greater possibility of sunshine...
...Confronting Liberal Bias I From an article in the Los Angeles Times: "A San Bernardino radio station has been targeted with bomb and death threats after dropping G. Gordon Liddy's ultraconservative talk show in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing...
...Poetic Injustice From an article in The Honolulu Advertiser: "A federal grand jury has indicted a Maui man on charges he intentionally destroyed his boat, committed mail fraud, and made false statements to the Coast Guard...
...The indictment says Timur Sila obtained a $195,000 insurance policy covering his vessel 'Integrity,' and then tried to collect on the policy after casting away and destroying the vessel...
...This week, the radio station fired him...
...Silver Lining An item in the San Antonio Express News: "Photographs of a Texas convicted killer's remains—frozen and carved into 1,871 slices—are now on the Internet computer network, in an attempt to help scientists study anatomy...
...Please be sensitive to these perceptions—which do have merit—in assigning or responding to such requests...
...Perfectly Clear Memo, reprinted in The Washington Post, from Jack Ward Thomas, chief of the Forest Service, to his staff: "Subject: Horizontal Behavior...
...His boss at KMJ, the San Joaquin Valley news/talk radio station that put on the April 15 event, asked him to fudge his forecast...
...A previous set of operative language would have contrasted this as 'functional' as opposed to 'corporate' behavior...
...This is America and I'll only write it in English.' " Mr...
...Professional Ethics Charles Fried, whom Massachusetts Governor William Weld is promoting as a pro-choice candidate for the state supreme court, explaining in The Washington Post how his views have changed since, as solicitor general for the Reagan Administration, he filed a brief in 1985 to overturn Roe v. Wade: "I was a lawyer...
...Paul] Jernigan asked that his body be donated to science after his August 1993 execution...
...Smith Trampled in Washington Senator Robert C. Smith, in The New York Times, arguing from the Senate floor against a resolution allowing circus elephants and performers on the Capitol grounds to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus: " 'How,' he asked at the height of an impassioned speech, 'do you stop an elephant if it goes berserk on the grounds of the Capitol?' With a chart listing more than a dozen instances of fatal attacks by circus elephants . . . Mr...
...Confronting Liberal Bias II From an article in the Los Angeles Times datelined Madera, California: "TV and radio weatherman Sean Boyd . . . discovered the wrath of Rush Limbaugh's devotees after predicting rain for the second annual Dittohead Barbecue and Politically Incorrect Picnic at the fairgrounds here...
...Dicklow said she offered to spell it out for store manager Fred Craig or write it herself on the frosting, but Craig said: 'Nope...
...NO COMMENT Planned Parenthood Republican State Representative Henry Aldridge of North Carolina, defending a bill to eliminate the state abortion fund for poor women from the budget: "The facts show that people who are raped—who are truly raped—the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work, and they don't get pregnant...
Vol. 59 • June 1995 • No. 6
