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Judge Robert Mulkern's seven-page opinion upheld both the city's right to enact the law, which requires developers to obtain a permit before converting apartments to condominiums or demolishing the units, and the constitutionality of the statute...
...federal laws were not the answer; Uncle Sam's money would be better spent chasing big-time traffickers. Instead, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) drafted a model anti-paraphernalia statute last fall that it maintains will withstand constitutional challenge, and began encouraging interested states and localities to enact it. The model prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, advertisement and use of any object that is intended for growing or ingesting an illegal drug. The trouble with such language is that it tends to be overly broad. Authorities would have to prove state of mind since many items that...
...spending, and in fact the legislators are talking of slashes going a bit deeper than the $13 billion that Jimmy Carter proposed two weeks ago as the keystone of his fourth anti-inflation program. But the battle over just which programs to reduce by how much-and whether to enact some relatively minor tax increases as well-is by no means settled...
...like Kennedy, he is unlikely to escape frustration: Higgins is hopelessly hooked on the local baseball team. "The Red Sox are a religion," he concludes. "Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play...
...discipline to enact even the modest spending cuts that the President proposes. On the other hand, there is the serious question of whether the President himself will have the discipline to resist the inevitable demands that he make this and that exception. "Discipline," of course, is a word that is most easily applied to other people. The Administration sought to win advance approval for its plan by consulting groups of Representatives and Senators from both parties, but the heaviest burden naturally fell on Carter's fellow Democrats, who control Congress. Meetings with them went on daily for the better...