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...croupier (and Edwin Edwards has known quite a few) would have called it a high-risk roll. But the Louisiana Governor, who is proud to call himself a gambling man, felt the odds were in his favor when he took the stand last week in his trial on federal racketeering and fraud charges. For three days the bon temps Governor with silver hair and a golden tongue was by turns defiant and disarming, depicting himself as a loyal friend ("Man, I spent my life helping people, friends and enemies") and an absent-minded administrator ("I'm not a detail person...
...important early painters. Last week he also became the priciest. The National Gallery of Art paid $4.07 million for his Rubens Peale with a Geranium, an intimate portrait of his horticulturist younger brother. The previous record for an American work of art at auction: $2.75 million for Frederic Edwin Church's Icebergs...
Because of government cutbacks, Harvard expects to receive only a fraction of the $389,000 requested, according to Edwin Williams, a University consultant. Harvard received $200,000 for the microfilming project in 1978, but since then federal grants have steadily dropped to $75,000 last year, said project coordinator Kathleen A. Facos...
Rehnquist also said that he would not comment on the recent dispute between Attorney General Edwin Meese and Supreme Court Justice William Brennan over the issue of judicial restraint because he had not read their speeches on the subject...
...vital to U.S. security for the Government to be able to debrief John Walker and that Walker could not be forced to talk against his will. "We need to know what is broken and what must be fixed," Schatzow said. Although the bargain had been approved by Attorney General Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Navy Secretary John Lehman attacked the deal. John and Michael Walker had committed "the gravest of all possible crimes," charged Lehman. Not giving them the maximum possible sentence, he added, sends "the wrong message to the nation and to the fleet." Weinberger then scolded...