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...bill, which has met loud opposition from community groups in neighborhoods surrounding the proposed development, would allow the developer of the proposed shopping mall, restaurant, hotel and housing complex to bypass public reviews...
George Bachrach's decision last week to run as an Independent and bypass the primary, and the announcement from David Wylie that he would leave the race after three unsuccessful attempts, still left four possible progressive challengers to McCann in the running for the nomination...
...Ventnor, N.J. For flexibility, another sheik was created, Yasser Habib. He claimed that he might one day have to flee his home country and seek asylum in the U.S. That asylum could be provided if a member of Congress would introduce a private bill, granting him special status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would, of course, generously reward any legislator willing to sponsor such legislation. (In past years as many as 7,300 private immigration bills had been introduced in the House, and such mere introduction could indefinitely postpone any deportation proceedings against an alien already...
Tito first entered the Ljubljana Clinic on Jan. 3 for examination of circulatory problems. Nine days later he underwent an unsuccessful operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg. A form of "dry gangrene"-the localized death of tissue caused by a lack of circulation-developed in the leg, and thus the doctors (with Tito's reluctant concurrence) decided that amputation was necessary...
...possibility that the end was nearing for Josip Broz Tito, the country's Communist Party chief and President-for-Life. A medical team at a hospital in Ljubljana reported that Tito's overall condition was good. But then the doctors admitted that an operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg "did not achieve the desired effect" and "the condition of the leg was gradually deteriorating." On Sunday morning doctors amputated Tito's left leg below the knee, because gangrene had set in. The aging dictator had consented to the operation, after opposing...