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...most playing fields these days, New York Governor Hugh Carey, 61, ditched his statehouse grays for an appearance in the second annual Pumpkin Bowl. The touch-football game pitted the Governor and his staff against reporters for the Albany Times-Union. As back-up quarterback, Carey warmed the bench. But substituting at halfback, he did manage a down or two of wobbly catch and carry. Cheering him on and tucking in his jersey from time to time was his second wife of seven months, Evangeline Gouletas-Carey, 45. Last year the statehousers lost, but this time they scored...
...incident is a brutal sign of the growing occupational and safety hazards of work on the bench. Though there are few figures on threats against judges, the U.S. Marshals Service, which provides security for the federal bench, says that cases serious enough to warrant a personal guard rose from 58 in fiscal...
Though judges are more vulnerable outside the security of the courtroom, they can no longer feel totally safe while sitting on the bench. Last August Lindsay Arthur, 64, senior district judge in Minneapolis, was presiding at the arraignment of Richard Martin, 32. Suddenly, Martin tried to escape. Finding the exit blocked, he headed for Arthur. Martin punched the judge in the face, drawing blood and sending him sprawling. Last year in a Chicago courtroom, Defendant Wayne Ellis grabbed a revolver from a policeman's holster, aimed it at Judge William Prendergast and pulled the trigger three times. Fortunately...
...ended in a deadlock over the price they should charge for oil, the OPEC ministers needed just nine hours and ten minutes to agree on a new base price of $34 per bbl., $2 more than the current rate for Saudi Arabian light crude but $2 less than the bench-mark level they have been using as a pricing guide since last December. Moreover, the oil producers said that the price would remain at that rate through...
...became apparent very quickly last week that Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani had finally won his test of will with the other OPEC members. They agreed to drop the bench-mark price of crude by $2, and Saudi Arabia indicated that it will lower production immediately from 9.3 million bbl. per day to 8.5 million bbl. The only real disagreement at the session was over the various premiums that members could charge for their crude in addition to the new base price. Algeria and Libya, for example, will be permitted to demand $4 per bbl. more for their...