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...last-ditch effort, as Bertrand made his final rounding of the windward mark more than 3 min. ahead, Conner tried to sail over his opponent, get to leeward of Australia II and force it to head back up to windward. He was about a minute too late. By the end of the race, in constantly shifting winds of up to 19 knots from the southwest, Bertrand led by a whopping 3 min. 25 sec. The series was tied 3-3. From London to Perth, the betting was on Australia...
...ruling, the Justices approved a speeded-up method of processing the last-ditch legal maneuvers of condemned prisoners. Thomas Andy Barefoot, 37, convicted in the shooting death of a police officer in Bell County, Texas, had filed a direct state court appeal, a previous petition to the Supreme Court, state court habeas corpus proceedings and, when all those failed, a federal habeas corpus petition, which reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last November. The appeals court denied his plea for a stay of execution...
...Alliance's last-ditch efforts to attract anti-Thatcher sentiment received a timely boost from Labor Leader Michael Foot's manifest ineptness on the stump, as well as from the growing disarray within the Labor Party. The leftist New Statesman abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...
After three months of deliberations that included 28 full meetings and consultations with hundreds of experts, the eleven-member Commission on Strategic Forces brought forth its 26-page final report last week. There were few surprises. The blue-ribbon panel, appointed last January by President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range...
Before long, the Saudis made a last-ditch effort to seal the cracks in OPEC'S unity. At a meeting in Bahrain of seven of the organization's members, Yamani offered to lower the Saudis' production quota if the others would accept new ceilings and stick to them. The ministers reached a tentative agreement and decided to convene a full OPEC meeting in Geneva...