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Gaeta on Tuesday pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government and will testify against Indelicato in exchange for a milder sentence, said U.S. District Court clerk Phillip Lyons...
...week. Economists were encouraged that the record deficit did not send the stock market into a free fall; they remembered well that a less bleak trade report and a drop in the dollar helped trigger the Black Monday crash. The reason for the milder market reaction this time was that investors were no longer afraid that the Administration and the Federal Reserve will try to defend the dollar with higher interest rates...
...Pretoria, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha declared that South Africa could not "allow itself to be threatened in this way." The Reagan Administration took milder exception to Sullivan's announcement, saying that "it is now more important than ever for U.S. firms to stay and work for an end of apartheid." Several U.S. companies suggested they would continue to follow the Sullivan Principles. Asked whether the guidelines could endure without Sullivan, the clergyman quipped, "Well, they kept the Ten Commandments without Moses...
...kept a close eye on the coalition of religious and women's groups coalescing around the issue of exploitation of children and women. As a result, nearly all of the most lurid fare, dealing with children, bestiality and torture, is gone from the shelves. Some stores have begun removing milder material on bondage and discipline as well, on grounds that the legal and political hassles involved are too much trouble for such minority tastes...
During the past few winters, which have been milder than those one, there has been a $20,000 surplus in the snow budget, said Rossi, adding that the left-over money goes to a general fund and is appropriated during the next fiscal year...