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Keough said that the special procedure, which has also been used for the redevelopment of the Fort Debbins Army base and the South Weymouth Naval airbase, will not mean a speedier review process for Harvard...
...will continue the fight from London? My brother has asked me to hold the fort here. I was to accompany him to Islamabad, but at the 11th hour he asked me to cancel my trip. I was about to board his plane to go with him, and though I was very insistent to join him, he was also insistent that I should not come. Now I will lead the fight for his release from here...
...Noriega's Fort Lauderdale-based attorney, told TIME that his client informed him yesterday about the expedited plans. "We got a phone call from the General," May says. "He received a piece of paper saying he is going to be moved. We don't know where. We fully expect there will be an airplane waiting to take him to France in the middle of the night or Friday morning. Very sneaky...
...There is a principle here that certainly transcends Noriega and that's strict interpretation of the Geneva Convention," says Jon May, Noriega's Fort Lauderdale-based attorney. "Strict interpretation protects our soldiers around the world... In [The Black Hawk Down incident] in Somalia we went to warlords and said we expect you to respect the Geneva Convention. During the first Desert Storm issues of the Geneva Convention came up all the time. There may be no sympathy for Gen. Noriega, but that doesn't mean we don't respect his rights...
...National Weather Service's Chanhassen, Minn., office, says up to 7 inches of rain may fall in parts of the region this weekend. That puts some farmers in a tenuous position. First, Keith Sexton feared the summer drought would reduce his corn crops at his farm near Fort Dodge, Iowa, in the north-central part of the state. So far, the rains have been a blessing: He's expecting to yield about 165 bushels of corn per acre, and about 50 bushels of soybeans per acre - average to above-average, he says, but better than initially expected...