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...year the papers were due to be released. D'Attillo sought an injunction forcing the University to release the papers prematurely, claiming that they were public property of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and not personal correspondence. The historian was unsuccessful, but as it happened, when the papers were finally opened in December, they contained very little new historical information...
...fact, the Franks committee avoided turning up any scapegoats. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which many had expected would be heavily censured, was merely chided on a couple of minor points. The diplomatic service, the committee said, had underestimated the speed with which the crisis would develop and, in early 1982, failed to pay sufficient notice to the Falklands issue, despite a clear change of mood in Buenos Aires...
President Reagan, who as recently as three weeks ago refused to indicate his specific preferences for Social Security reforms, sent the panel a long-awaited, though faint, signal that helped win Republican support for the tax speedup. In a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Chief of Staff Baker said that the President, despite his "abhorrence" of tax increases, "might consider some acceleration" of the already scheduled payroll tax hikes in exchange for a slowdown in benefits. The statement freed congressional Republicans on the commission, who up till then had been in an impossible position: if they recommended...
RAIN MIXED WITH SNOW outside the Statehouse last Thursday, but inside that historic building, at precisely 12:12 p.m., sunshine broke through after four years of gloom. Michael S. Dukakis, taking the oath of office, was beginning his term as governor of the Commonwealth. Only minutes before, Edward J. King had walked out the front door and down the steps, leaving behind the havoc of his reign...
...create Air Jamaica as a rival to the donor country's BWIA International; both airlines are now heavy money losers. Major General Robert Neish, head of the 4,000-member Jamaica Defense Force, finds it easier to work out military exchange programs with Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth, than with his independent neighbors...