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Brandt hoped that the Hesse results would deter the Free Democrats from joining forces with Kohl. Two days after the election, however, the 54 Free Democrat members of the Bundestag decided by a vote of 34 to 18 to go ahead with the no-confidence maneuver...
...into having a wrenching abortion, and then broke his firm pledge to impregnate her again. What's more, he's predicting a "precedent-setting" verdict in Perry's favor that he says will encourage other betrayed lovers to undertake similar suits. A victory for Perry, Mitchelson says, would also deter men from making false promises to mistresses to escape embarassing predicaments...
Nonetheless, some banking experts maintain that the agreement will not deter insider trading, but merely force the illegal transactions to be conducted in other banking havens, such as Liechtenstein, Panama or the Caribbean. Says Paul Erdman, a bestselling financial novelist (The Crash of 79, The Last Days of America), who spent ten months in jail for violating Swiss financial laws: "Insider trading will just have to be done a little more cleverly...
...drug's physical and emotional dangers to justify "serious national concern." But the committee's assignment was to look at the fiscal and social costs of enforcing criminal laws against marijuana use. And it found those costs too high. Tough laws do not appear to deter marijuana use, said the committee, noting that in states without such statutes there seems to have been no "appreciable" increase in pot smoking. In addition, those states have lower costs of enforcement. California, for example, now spends only a quarter of what it used to and concentrates on the pursuit of dealers...
...crowd of government and church dignitaries, was President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, uniformed but hatless, reverently kneeling to kiss the Pontiffs ring. Later, while the Pope spoke, Galtieri gallantly held an umbrella over him, but the presence of the man who had ordered the invasion of the Falklands did not deter John Paul from hammering yet again at the message of peace and reconciliation he had carried throughout Britain. He prayed for "the peace of Christ upon all victims of both sides," asking his hearers to think "once again about the absurd and always unjust phenomenon of war, whose scenario...