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...truck-bomb attacks that have occurred in Lebanon this year, including the ones in October that took the lives of 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. It was an ominous warning that the oil-producing gulf, a region of vital interest to the U.S., is not exempt from the kind of violence that has plagued Lebanon...
...significance of Chow's victory, however, could be far heavier than his pancakes. At stake in the case, say libel experts, is the right of critics to express their own judgments. Reviews, which are by nature subjective opinions, have generally been exempt from the standards of libel applied to news stories. But the distinction in libel cases between reporting and criticism is now being called into question...
...supported busing for parochial students is constitutional; but somehow state funds for field trips are not. The purchase of somehow state funds for field tripos are not. The purchase of textbooks for parochial students is permissible; buying a film projector is not. Churches and religious schools are constitutionally tax exempt; tuition tax credits...
...another problem: how cruise missiles should be defined in the draft treaty that the U.S. was preparing to table in Geneva. Perle wanted the definition written in such a way that the zero option would apply only to nuclear-armed cruise missiles; those with conventional warheads would be exempt. The trouble was that the distinction would be virtually impossible for either side to verify. There would be no way to tell a nuclear-armed cruise missile from one that was conventionally armed. Besides, the Joint Chiefs took the position that a conventionally armed ground-launched cruise missile would represent...
...addition, cities such as Cambridge, which already have condo conversion laws on the books, are exempt from the new law. Cambridge's law restricts condominiums by requiring permission from the rent control board if a rent-controlled apartment is removed from the market...