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...explosives in the vicinity of the President's office. Two Tamil youths were arrested and identified as members of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students, one of five separatist groups participating in the Thimbu conference. A spokesman for Gandhi denounced the assassination attempt and urged both sides "to exercise maximum restraint at this delicate stage...
...plan the opening of four printing plants by year's end, which will bring the nationwide total to 30. He launched an international edition of USA Today last year (15,000 copies sold a day, in Europe and the Middle East) and plans to increase the newspaper's maximum length from 48 pages to 56 in November. Perhaps most important of all, despite USA Today's substantial losses the Gannett Co. chalked up its 71 st straight quarterly rise in profits last month. Its net profit for 1984 was $224 million...
SENTENCED. MATTHEW HALE, 33, white supremacist convicted last year of plotting to kill Chicago federal judge Joan Lefkow because of her ruling in a trademark dispute concerning the name of his church; to the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison; in Chicago. His case made headlines again in February when Lefkow's husband and mother were murdered by a deranged ex-plaintiff, who, despite early suspicions, had no connection to Hale...
Twenty-three-year-old Linda Vaghar, who is accused of defrauding more than a dozen people out of tens of thousands of dollars, is currently charged with at least 11 counts of larceny over $250, each of which comes with a maximum prison sentence of five years...
...ongoing curricular review has the potential to address the relevant questions substantively, but only if it is carried out deliberately, unhurriedly, and with maximum participation by both faculty and students,” Buell wrote. “This is not to be taken for granted. Harvard’s pressure cooker atmosphere tends to make administrators, faculty, and students all feel in too much of a hurry about such matters...