Fourteen years after the immense drama of the ''Saturday Night Massacre,'' the handling of that constitutional crisis amid the Watergate scandals is emerging as an issue that could shape the emotional constitutional questions of today.
That is because the man in the middle on the night of Oct. 20, 1973, Robert H. Bork, is now President Reagan's nominee to fill a critical swing seat on the Supreme Court. Whoever fills that seat may have the power to change national policy on issues ranging from race relations to abortion.
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