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On this tabloid day, the only development inside-the-Beltway to warrant a reporter's attention contained good news for youth. All three newscasts had their Supreme Court correspondents cover the 8-1 vote that stopped public schools from strip-searching teenagers without "specific suspicions of real danger," as ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg put it. The lawsuit arose from the outrageous search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl's bra and panties in an eighth grade nurse's office. What was the suspected contraband? A pair of prescription-strength ibuprofen pills, NBC's Pete Williams told us, "each pill no stronger than two common Advil tablets." The girl's private parts turned out to be drugfree. CBS' Wyatt Andrews hailed "a major victory for student privacy."
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