Word: district
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whenever the military moves to shutter a base, the member of Congress in whose district it is located rises in righteous indignation. Given the you- scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours philosophy that reigns on Capitol Hill, even such an anachronism as Virginia's moat-encircled Fort Monroe -- built for the War of 1812 -- has been spared, although it costs $186 million a year and serves no useful military purpose...
...been no penetrations this year." One of his Soviet counterparts, General Oleg Ilin, confirms that view. "We have reduced our strength in this region and ceased all training maneuvers on the border," he says. Ilin is the No. 2 political officer, or commissar, attached to the Far Eastern military district, which has its headquarters near Khabarovsk, on the banks of the Amur River, another stretch of contested border...
Last week a federal judge in Manhattan dismissed the Justice Department lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Edmund Palmieri, citing cases back to 1804, ruled that the headquarters agreement is a valid treaty that cannot be superseded by the 1987 U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. U.N. officials and the P.L.O. observers cheered the decision, but the Justice Department prevailed on one point: its ouster of the P.L.O.'s Washington office was deemed legal...
CANDIDACY DECLARED. By Patrick Kennedy, 20, youngest child of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, for the House of Representatives from Rhode Island's Ninth District; in Providence. Kennedy, who will be a junior at Providence College this fall, will challenge Representative John M. Skeffington Jr. in a September primary. He thus becomes the youngest member of his clan ever to run for public office...
...company's chief executive officer,Mockler was on hand throughout the trial at theU.S. District Court in Boston, testifying on thefifth day of the trial--two weeks ago--that he wasadamantly opposed to selling the Gillette companythroughout the proxy fight with Coniston...