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BOSTON--In a setback for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the state's highest court ruled yesterday that there is no legal justification for the governor's claim of "executive privilege" and ordered him to divulge sensitive planning documents...
...ruling came in a suit filed by Donald Babets and David Jean, two homosexuals challenging the Dukakis administration's decision to remove two young boys from foster care in their Boston home. The men argued that they needed access to the administration's policymaking process to prove their claim that their rights were violated...
There was no claim of responsibility for the bombings, but Foreign Minister Guillermo Bedregal said both were the work of cocaine dealers. Bedregal was riding in Shultz's car along with U.S. Embassy charge d'affaires David Greenley...
...annals of the interminable civil war between Ethiopia and its . province of Eritrea, the name is a milestone. It was at that dusty town in northern Ethiopia that the Eritrean People's Liberation Front overran President Mengistu Haile Mariam's main northern garrison in March. The rebels claim to have killed or captured 18,000 soldiers in one of their greatest victories in 26 years of fighting. At about the same time, just south of Eritrea, insurgents in Tigre scored a series of military triumphs...
...that, in Libra, is precisely what Don DeLillo has done. In a note at the end, he admits that some may find a novel on this subject "one more gloom in a chronicle of unknowing." But, he continues, "because this book makes no claim to literal truth, because it is only itself, apart and complete, readers may find refuge here -- a way of thinking about the assassination without being constrained by half-facts or overwhelmed by possibilities, by the tide of speculation that widens with the years." Unfortunately, this argument wants things both ways; a book can hardly be "only...