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...office in 1979. Three weeks ago, Michael Heseltine, Thatcher's Defense Minister, stormed out of a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street and quit over the government's handling of what has become known as "the Westland affair." Last week the controversy claimed another victim: Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan, a friend and political ally of Thatcher's, who was forced to resign from the government...
...steady, almost monotonous voice, Court President Leon Carlos Arslanian read a summary of the justices' 2,000-page decision. He and his brethren, he explained, had studied the country's criminal code and all the legal depositions presented to them. They had consulted international law specialists and considered the theories of conventional and revolutionary warfare, as well as the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. But, said Arslanian, "we have not found one single rule that justifies, much less excuses, the authors of facts that have been brought before this trial...
When the autumn rally started in September, it was a blue-chip affair. The rising stocks included mainly companies like IBM and General Foods. Now it is a much broader rally. Says Leon Cooperman, a partner of Goldman, Sachs: "The whole market has performed much better than expected." Airline and other transportation issues began doing well in November, and last week high- technology stocks, which have been in the dumps for nearly two years, also took...
...origin of matter and energy and could help them achieve a long-sought goal: to weave the four known forces of nature--electromagnetism, gravity, the weak force (responsible for radioactive decay) and the strong force (which holds atomic nuclei together)--into a single, elegant, grand unified theory. Says Leon Lederman, director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the high-energy physics facility near Chicago: "With the SSC, we are bound to make fantastic new discoveries...
...playing with grenades on their belts, like little kids." Falsely told by the terrorists that her husband was in the ship's infirmary, she tried to sneak there for a visit, but was stopped. Only after the hijackers abandoned ship, she said, did she learn that her husband Leon had been slain...