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...ousted minister had apparently run afoul of the ruling House of Saud on several counts. By electing to pump Saudi oil as fast as he could at a time when there was already a plentiful world supply, Yamani sparked a price war that caused OPEC prices to plunge from some $30 per bbl. last December to less than $10 this spring. Yamani's goal was to flood the world with cheap oil and thereby drive high-cost producers in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere out of business. OPEC would then be free to raise prices once again...
...arguments are scheduled Wednesday in one of the most difficult cases they face. Feminists are split over a 1978 California law allowing a pregnant worker to take up to four months of unpaid leave. The Justice Department has joined a Los Angeles bank in claiming that the statute runs afoul of federal laws barring discrimination based on pregnancy. Kathy Bonk of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which also opposes the state rule, argues, "When pregnant women are put in special categories, they are denied benefits and paid less." But Christine Littleton, who teaches law at UCLA, retorts, "Inadequate...
Kashani's management style and personality ran afoul of some of the other members of the IRC. "He tends to go around people he should talk to. He goes and does things that he doesn't have the power to do," said a member of the IRC. Another complained of excessive perfectionism, and unreasonable requests...
...Administration's changing sanctuary policy may well run afoul of Congress. "I think it is unfair as hell to permit blanket asylum for Nicaraguans and not for Salvadorans," protested Arizona's Democratic Senator , Dennis DeConcini. He has a bill pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee that would give Salvadoran refugees the same status as that being considered for Nicaraguans...
...eyebrows in Washington. The General Accounting Office disclosed to Congress that in the & past three years Pendleton has claimed $188,000 in salary payments for his part-time job, reporting a total of 706 workdays--twice the time claimed by any other current commissioner. If Pendleton does not run afoul of the commission for his views, he may still come to grief over his expenses...