Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the last refugees of World War II, the Koreans have been trying for 30 years to leave Sakhalin. "If I can't get back home soon," says one of them despairingly, "I will commit suicide...
...Congress passed-and Ford signed-a measure that cut taxes by $22.8 billion. Says House Majority Leader O'Neill: "We shoved the tax cut down his throat." Last month, Ford accepted an eleventh-hour agreement that extended the cuts through the first half of 1976 but did not commit Congress to a $395 billion spending ceiling...
Miller and the others looking into the case point out that in that time sequence, Reilly would scarcely have been able to commit a brutal, time-consuming murder. They also claim numerous other flaws in the prosecution's case. Reilly is now out on bail, a request for a new trial has been filed, and a simultaneous appeal is pending in the Connecticut Supreme Court...
...approved by Congress and the President last spring as a means of fighting the recession. On Oct. 6, Ford called for an increased tax cut amounting to roughly $28 billion over a full year. But he insisted that Congress reduce spending by the same amount. The Democrats refused to commit themselves to cuts in a budget that the President would not even submit until January. Ford vowed to his White House audience: "A tax cut coming down here without a spending ceiling will be vetoed...
...mused as he stared at the 20,000 people packed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. The occasion was a battle of sorts: a benefit concert for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black middleweight boxer imprisoned since 1966 for a murder that he claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince of protest when he delivered his new song, Hurricane. Also on hand: Joan...