Word: appealing
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...Senate adopted a broad package of antiterrorism measures after the President and Republican leaders settled their differences over the plan. The bill includes some $2 billion for stepped-up counterterrorism programs, broadened wiretapping authority (a presidential request) and -- most controversial of all -- a limit of one federal habeas corpus appeal for most prisoners on death row (a Republican request). The House is expected to act soon on similar legislation...
...Supreme Court refused to hear the first of several challenges to the year-oldFreedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.The law makes it a federal crime to block access to abortion clinics or intimidate either clients or clinic staff members. Without comment, the Justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling against Joyce Woodall, an anti-abortion demonstrator who was arrested after kneeling against a Falls Church, Va., clinic door and praying. Woodall's appeal said the law was unconstitutional in limiting anti-abortion speech or expression, but Justice Department lawyers said it "regulates conduct, not speech...
...request that the U.S. pay 31 percent of the cost, President Clinton has been seeking other sources of financing. One idea is for the U.S. to contribute equipment to the force instead of cash. And, much as the Bush Administration did during the Persian Gulf War, Clinton will appeal to wealthy Persian Gulf and Asian countries to help out with...
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic promptly took credit for the release, announcing that the Bosnian Serbs had accepted his appeal as a sign of readiness to start "resolving the crisis." But the crisis was far from over. On Friday a U.S. Air Force F-16 had been shot down over the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka. Serb commander Ratko Mladic reportedly claimed to have found the pilot, but there was no immediate confirmation. A senior official in Washington said Saturday he hoped that it was true and that the Serbs would release him promptly...
...just not substantiated. The arguments against [affirmative action] appeal to fears that some unqualified Black male is going to steal your job, not the social reality," Brown says. "According to the Federal Glass Ceiling Report, 95 percent of senior executives in American industry are white males, even though they only compose 32 percent of the workforce. [White male] fears are not justified...