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...year-old Sullivan, the assistant clerk of the Middlesex Country courts, said he is especially excited that his election as mayor will come on the 50th anniversary, to the day, of when his late father, Michael, was sworn on to the City Council. Every year since has seen a Sullivan serving in city government...
...Gander terminal's duty-free shop was open during the one-hour stop, and Clerk Cynthia Goodyear found the place invaded by exuberant Americans who sang along to the recorded Christmas carols as they picked out gifts. One blond soldier bought a money clip inscribed "Super Dad" for his father and crystal glasses for his mother. "They were clicking their fingers and just so happy to be going home," Goodyear recalled. One favorite souvenir: a T shirt reading I SURVIVED GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND...
...Capitol Hill, the enrolling clerk was balking. The President signed legislation only on certain days, the clerk told Albright, and there was no < call for this bill to be rushed. At that instant the clerk's telephone rang. Albright eavesdropped. Wilson wanted the Army appropriations legislation brought down. "Be a good fellow and stick the Parks Act in the same envelope," pleaded Albright. The clerk weakened and tucked it in the envelope destined to be carried to the White House in minutes...
Albright dashed to the streetcar, flung his long frame on board and beat the courier to the White House, where Legislative Clerk Maurice Latta was also moved by his enthusiasm and promised to slip the bill into the President's night papers and even try to rescue the pen used in signing. A few hours later, Albright picked up a phone and heard the magic words: "The President signed the bill...
...jolting news capped an especially dramatic week in Philippine politics. At 8:30 a.m. on Monday, 150 people crammed into a Manila courtroom to hear a clerk and two interpreters read the verdict in the trial of 26 men charged with conspiracy in the assassination of Ninoy Aquino as he stepped off a plane at the Manila international airport on Aug. 21, 1983. The opinion of the three-judge court ran to 90 pages and took more than two hours to recite, but the verdict boiled down to two words: not guilty. "Thank God, it's all over," said...