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...early 1985, he started to take it all back. No doubt to his delight, that has created a monumental legal quagmire, which got deeper and stickier last week. The murder charge was dropped in the first Lucas case to be prosecuted since he changed his tune: the 1983 ax slaying of a 72-year-old El Paso woman, Librada Apodaca. Judge Brunson Moore found his confession involuntary and | ruled Lucas had not knowingly waived his right to a lawyer. "Good treatment and perks" motivated the confession, Judge Moore concluded after his ruling. "You can catch as many flies with honey...
Certainly, her swift if belated stroke of decisiveness against Enrile dispelled in a single blow much of the turmoil that was unsettling Manila. And when she went on to ax four controversial ministers, while signing a cease- fire with the Communist rebels, Aquino pulled off a strategic coup of her own. Few could doubt that she had mastered the Napoleonic axiom that "justice means force as well as virtue...
...employees their jobs. Tisch has also lopped off entire lines of the sprawling conglomerate's business (1985 revenues: $4.8 billion), and is said to be looking for buyers who will take on others. Meanwhile, speculation is increasing that the next item to get the ax may be the "acting" portion of Tisch's CEO title. As Tisch himself has put it, "I've been bitten by CBS. It's got great potential...
Federman, who was not an expert on the issue, was chosen in part because "he had no ax to grind," Hayes said, adding that he does not receive research grants from the five foundations which sponsored the study...
...immediate benefit of wielding the ax will be savings estimated at $500 million annually. A more nebulous gain, Chairman Smith hopes, will be the recovery of investor confidence in a company that suffered third-quarter operating losses of $338.5 million. Said Smith last week: "We have progressed to the point where expected efficiencies can begin to pay off. It's been a long, steady course, and we're starting to see the sun coming over the horizon...