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...fellow Senators, their tempers frayed by two late-night sessions, offered 62 amendments, mostly general but minor. A few, however, were phrased in the confusing Unocal style to offer favors to specific companies, industries or projects (Walt Disney Productions, the makers of cellular telephones and the Houston Astrodome, to cite three examples from the Finance Committee bill). Finally, with lawmakers lining up to introduce 60-odd additional amendments, the Senate put off a final vote on the whole bill until Tuesday...
...circumference, designed to make certain that the superhot gases generated within each solid booster could not escape through the joints of the rocket's segments. When flames did penetrate a rocket joint on Challenger, they ignited the shuttle's external liquid-fuel tank, causing the explosion. The commission will cite the O-ring history not only as the cause of the catastrophe but also as an exemplar of the agency's fatally faulty system...
...tactical triumph for the Government, Judge Earl Carroll barred all testimony on the religious and humanitarian motives behind the defendants' actions. Sanctuary lawyers nonetheless managed to slip several such references into testimony, and they plan to cite Carroll's ruling when they appeal the verdict. Prosecutor Reno, grandson of a Methodist preacher, faced some obstacles. He had the unenviable task of portraying as criminals a group of pious Good Samaritans (who held a prayer meeting after the jury announced its verdicts). One of the 15 Central Americans summoned to the stand by Reno, for instance, described a defendant...
Today, students cite that feeling as justifying their protest of the body. The CRR exists to quash political debate and that is reason enough to protest, they say, and how it goes about punishing campus dissent is irrelevant...
...detention orders that have prevented hundreds of activists from speaking out or attending public meetings. More than 20 people, including Black Community Leaders Mkhuseli Jack and Henry Fazzie, have had such orders rescinded by courts in the past month on the ground that the government had failed to cite adequate reasons to justify them legally. While some, like Jack and Fazzie, had been banned only recently, last week Rowley Arenstein, a white former Communist leader, was "unbanned" for the first time in 33 years. But the court actions may be only a temporary setback for government officials, who are free...