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is that we're taking an open-minded con- servative and potentially replacing him with someone with settled views on every single issue that will affect the outcome of civil rights and civil liberties." If, as is highly likely, the Bork nomination goes to the full Senate, where the Democrats hold a 54-46 edge, a united partisan front could block a majority vote to confirm. If there were enough votes to confirm Bork, a filibuster - which would re- quire 60 votes to break - would mean the Republicans would have to get 14 Democrats to vote with them to end the debate. If Bork is confirmed, he could play a pivotal role in possibly reversing the court's rulings that have author- ized abortions and affirmative action programs giving preferential treat- ment to min!l, ities and women. Powell was the swing vote in sev- eral 5-4 decisions, including the 1973 ruling in Roe vs. Wade affirming a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, and· in recent cases uphold- ing affirmative action programs and separation of church and state. White House officials said they do not expect a major ideological battle over Bork's nomination in the full Senate, although they anticipate some opposition from liberal Demo- crats on the Judiciary Committee.

tions. "If the Republicans are going to stay on this binge of delayrng and stalling and dragging their feet ... then I will too - I'll play a little of the same hardball, when it comes to calling up the nomination," Byrd said. The Judiciary Committee chair- man, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said, "I fully intend to do everything in my power to hold full, fair and thorough hearings." Biden, seeking the 1988 Democrat- ic presidential nomination, said he intend to "b£:gin the hearings as expeditiously as possible ... once we !,ave done all the basic preparatory \\ ork." He said he will appoint a panel of "distinguished legal schol- ars" to review Bork's record before the hearing~ begin. Bidi·n s,dd he had told White House chief of taff Howard Baker and At- torney General Edwin Meese III that Bork did not fit the "open-minded" mold of Powell, who was the swing vote for many issues before the court. "I told them I had serious doubts . . . that if they nominated Judge Bork that it would cause a very con- tentious and serious fight ;n the Unit- ed States &mate," he said. Biden said Bork appeared "settled m his views . . . someone who has a very sharp edge as to how he would

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for his role in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox m 1973. As solicitor general, Bork car- ried out President Nixon's orders to fire Cox after then-Attorney General EJliot Richardson refused. In what was seen as a major break for the White House, Richardson de- fended Bork on Monday, saymg, "He would make a good Justice. You can't blame him for the Cox firing." With the exception yesterday ol Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Ken- nedy, who said he would vote against the nomination in the Judiciary Com- mittee, Senate Democrats generallJ reacted cautiously to Bork's nomina tion. But despite White House hopes fo early confirmation, Senate Majorit Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., hinte that he might drag his feet on sche1 uling a confirmation vote if Republ cans continue to block Democrat initiatives, particularly a liill to Jim campaign spending in Senate ele See COURT r Page A-26

Copley News Servlte WASHINGTON President Reagan yesterday nominated con- servative U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a poten- tially explosive battle with the Dem- ocrat-controlled Senate over his con- firmation. In introducing to reporters bis nominee to replace Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., Mr. Reagan described the 60-year-old Bork as "the most promi- nent and intellectually powerful ad- vocate of judicial restraint." Mr. Reagan said Bork - a former Yale Law School professor who served as U.S. solicitor general dur- ing the Nixon and Ford administra- tions - "shares my view that judges' personal preferences and values should not be part of their ronstitu- tional interpretations." Bork, who has criticized Supreme Court rulings in favor of affirmative action and abortion, is best known -

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spending bil clears Senate On a vote of 146-269, the House re- Jected an effort to chop $180 million out of l~e Commerce Department's Economic Development Administra- tion fiscal year 1988, which begins Oct. I The House Appropnations Com- mitt approved a $26.8 billion trans- por (ion spending bill for next year that uld lead to yet another clash and pensions for federal employees $748 mil!ion for the military, and ~59 million for foreign aid. Also, it rncludes $355 million in aid for the homeless and f/7 million for AIDS programs. ed by lawmakers on behalf of farm- ers counting on the bill. "The longer these payments are held up, the worse it is for farmers involved," said Sen. Quentin Burdick D-N.D. ' He voiced the sentiments of

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t rd y av fmal congres 1onal ap- proval t > a $9 4 bllhon emergency pending bill lad n with long-delayed fann aid fter dropprng a demand that th Ub ited States tear down ill; lectron,ca ly bugged emba sy in Moscow. "It's !,kc t kmg ca tor oil for me" aid n ~'r t Hollings, D-S.C., who fought for th complete dismantling of th d1plom tic- post In lead, he a reed lo th Ho e position that work on a new bu1Jdmg be halted until November ~hlle a new plan 1s dcveloptd Tb 11d,ng measure, which e vote, provides ad- y to keep federal agen• ./JKTatinl? durmg the current fis- r h1ch end Sept 30. The p sed the supplemental bill Tu day on a 309 114 resid nt Reagan's advisers ure f r cxpre mg irullal opposition. ' The legislation omits two arms ntrol prov1s1ons wntten m o the ongmal bill pa d by the House in the spnng but excluded from t, 1 Senate proposa I. In other achoo yesterday: • The House voted to preserve a $200 million program of economic development proJects, despite obJec- llons that the spending is ''the very person1f1ca tion of pork barrel and power polit1ci;." ve id he would sign the m

the top of everybody's list." A graduate of the University of · ago law school, Bork was unani- mously o inned by the Senate for the appeals court post in 1982. Mr. Reagan, who said he has known Bork for many years, consid- ered Bork for the Supreme Court va- cancy created last year when Chief Justice Warren Burger resigned ;ind Associate Justice William Rehnquist moved up to take his place. The White House source said Bork then was Mr Reagan's second choice after Antonin Scalia, who received thf' President's nommation. At his confirmation hearings for the D.C. Circuit in 1982, Bork at- tacked what he called "judicial impe- rialism" in which judges go "too far" in discerning rights not clearly spelled out in the Constitution. Bork has said abortion should be a matter of local control. At a symposium at the University of San Diego Law School, BorKOnce said, "The provisions of the Bill of Rights and Civil War Amendments not only have contents that protect individual liberties, they also have limits.... They do not cover all pos- sible or even all desirable liberties. "Freedom of speech covers speech, , not sexual conduct. . . . The fact of limits means that the judge's author- ity bas limits ...."

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"We're prepared to go to the mat on this one," said Art Kropp, presi- dent of People for the American Way, one of 40 Washington-based groups that have decided to fight Bork's nomination. Kropp said his group will spend "whatever it takes" to defeat Bork by ''getting the message out." He accused Bork of writing opinions as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District ef Columbia that have "undermined 30 years of ad- vances in civil rights and civil liber- ties." Mr. Reagan offered Bork the· Su- preme Court seat 1fter a 20-minute Oval Office meeting ,esterday. Then, with Bork at his side, be announced the nomination before reporters in the White House press room. Bork did not make a statement. A White House source said Mr. Reagan, in the Oval Office session, asked Bork about his judicial philoso- phy. Although the White House circu- lated a long list of candidates for the vacancy earlier this week, the source said administration officials never considered any other candidate seri- ously. "It's fair to say that it was always Bork," the source said. "He was at

The bill also funds $300 million for a new space shuttle to replace the Challenger, destroyed in a January 1986 explosion that killed its seven crew members, and $300 million in economic and development assist- ance to Central America. Other funds would pay for work on a heavy-lift space rocket to help launch large payloads into space but ·th a ?an_ on u.:,1ng any of the m~ney for act1v11Jes that might be associat- ed with early deployment of Mr. Reagan's space-based missile de- fense system known as "Star Wars." _In a~dition, the bill urges the Im- nugratJon and Naturalization Ser- vice to ease some requirements of the new immigration law until late in the summer. _When the measure becomes Jaw, it will add even more red ink to the government's expected 1987 deficit of about $175 billion, which is well above the $144 billion deficit re- quired for this year in the Gramm- Rudman deficit reduction law. ~he embassy squabble was the maJor remaining sticking point in the compromise version of the spend- ing bill tLat House-Senate conferees bad worked out last week. Hollings bowed to pressure exert-

lawmakers who did not relish the thought of spending their long Fourth of July recess answering questions from farmers angry about not re- ceiving their money. ~e House had approved the legis- lation Tuesday, but had included the provision freezing work on the Mos- cow building. The House also re- iterated long-standing language that the Soviets would be allowed to ~ove into a new chancery in Wash- rngton only when the American structure in Moscow is ready. Hollings and other lawmakers foun~ that language objectionable, argumg that the only way to ensure that the embassy is secure is to tear down the whole structure and start again. "!" order to make it secure, you veritably have to tear it down," said Hollings. "The important factor here is not cost but security." Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger bad told Congress on Monday that the Moscow building is so t_hor(?ughly infested with listening devices that its top three floors would have to be torn down and the rest of the compound altered.

betw n Mr. Reagan and Congress. Th measure would require the Fede I Avialion Administration to have 15,900 air traffic controllers by ~pt SO, 1988 - the end of the 1988 fiscal ear - which is 95 more than the government h s said it need.,. Under the appropriations bill spendJ1Jg levels would reach $13.9 bi!~ hon t build and repair highways and bridg ~nd for other road programs; $6.4 b hon to operate and improve a1rpo and the nation's air traffic contrc I system; more than $3 billion fo~ ;1 ious mass transit programs- $2.7 billion for the Coast Guard· and $614 lion for Amtrak. ' Mo t of the the money in the Sen- ate .emergency spending bill - $5.5 bllhon 1s earmarked for the Agri- culture Department's Commodity Credi,t Corp., which runs the govern- ments farm subsidy programs. The agency, which ran out of money May l, owes farmers and grain storage operators millions of dollars and has been unable to pay it. Other items included in the bill are more than $1.5 billion for pay raises

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Deno, Kerry Culbreth and Rick Grippo. Performing a reading in the ceremony were Carol Qua- tannens, Dennis Chamberland and Gregg Deno. The flower girt \\-as Dahni Salazar. The ring bearer was Matthew Culbreth. A dinner reception at the Breakers Hotel in Long Beach followed the ceremony. After a wedding trip to Hawaii, the couple is t home in San Pedr/ '

made of gold, silver and pearls. The bridesmaids wore satin, floor-length, lavender dresses with short sleeves and bows in back. Attending the bride were her sister Sandra Todora, Laura Devere, Valerie Harter, Lisa Oetkos, Victoria Biagiotti and Diane Culbreth. Attending the groom were Anthony Todora, Steven Todora, l:'rothers Glenn Deno and Greg

Connie Deno of Las Vegas, is a graduate of Bishop Gorman High School, Las Vegas, and the Uni- versity of San Diego, rwhere he received a bachelor ofarts degree in political science in 1985 The bride's designer gown was of chiffon with French Alencon lace and bodice beaded with pearls and sequins. She wore her mother's custom-designed head- piece and matching bouquet made in Mexico City. Both were of handmade, individual wax roses, accented with tiny pearls, rhine- stones and crystals. She also wore an antique medal of the Madonna

Maria Elena Todora and George Deno exchanged marriage vows June 6, in an afternoon, double-ring, nuptial Mass at Holy Trinity Church in San Pedro. The Rev. Tom Glynn officiated. The bride, daughter of Tony and Maria Elena Todora of Ran- cho Palos Verdes, is a 1980 graduate of Miraleste High School, and a 1985 graduate of the University of San Diego, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in business and was affiliated with the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. The groom. son of George and

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Fullerton, CA (Orange Cot Fullerton News Tribune (Cir. W 24,430) JUL 2 1987 Jlf~rt '• P. C. 8 far. 1888 an~•~ graduate Vic · i.(!1r~ a resident of Fullerton, was among the 1,250 students receiving degrc~s from the University of San Diego .

Maria and George Deno