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...Also fired was Haiti's tough police chief, Colonel Albert Pierre. Duvalier, who quickly appointed long-standing family retainers and technocrats to fill the vacant posts, offered no explanation for his actions. But he was clearly reacting to the unusual restiveness among Haiti's citizens, and to a threatened cutoff of much needed U.S. aid following bloody government clampdowns on civil unrest...
...vaccine for children ran short a year ago because Connaught Laboratories suspended production for a nine-month period during which it could not find insurance at an acceptable price. Now Lederle Laboratories, the only other maker of the vaccine, is talking of halting output in July if a threatened cutoff of its liability insurance materializes. Beech Aircraft figures the cost of liability premiums at a stunning $80,000 on each plane it sells. Says William Mellon, director of corporate communications: "The owner-pilot market has all but dried up, and one cause is the cost of product liability...
...give them so little, so late, that it would be meaningless. On the eve of the President's speech appealing for the contra cause, which was scheduled for last Sunday night, a majority of the House, faced with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down choice, was leaning toward a cutoff of all U.S. aid to the contras and a pious but toothless exhortation to diplomacy...
Since outright repeal of the speed limit would mean a complete cutoff in federal highway grants, not even the most rebellious states have ever gone through with it. Nevada has come closest, with a new law that couples mandatory seat belts with a 70-m.p.h. speed limit that would take effect on July 1. But Robin Hollibird, a spokeswoman for the Nevada transportation department, believes the law will be over turned in short order. Nevadans, she says, just want to show Washington what they think of the 55-m.p.h. limit...
...there is one undisputed difference between two realms of academia. The mean grade for humanities courses is higher than that in the natural sciences, according to O’Keefe. And with the new honors GPA cutoff applying across the board, science concentrators may be at a disadvantage when Latin honors are handed...