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...York is not typical of these angry tunes. The country's decade-long moratorium on capital punishment ended in 1977 when Gary Gilmore dared Utah to shoot him and, six years ago this week, Utah obliged. Five men have been executed since. One shared Gilmore's flashy passion for martyrdom: Jesse Bishop, who gunned down a newlywed during a casino holdup, practically volunteered for Nevada's gas chamber. Three were electrocuted: John Spenkelink in Florida...
...declaring he would issue no more drilling leases in 200 million acres of wild land, even though the law technically permits him to do so during the last three months of this year. As it happens, the lands will be exempt from leasing anyway when a congressionally imposed moratorium takes effect Dec. 31, 1983, and Watt's previous attempts at lease issuance have met with strong resistance on Capitol Hill. Admitted the Secretary: "It is not worth the political hassle...
...debt of $80 billion; soon thereafter Brazil declared that it was unable to meet payments on its $87 billion borrowings. Last week Brazil told its foreign creditors that it would not make $446 million in payments on principal due in January, but denied that this amounted to a moratorium. Argentina, too, was in the headlines: about five months behind in interest payments on its debt of more than $40 billion, it encountered a delay in securing a crucial $1.1 billion bailout loan from international banks...
Brooks was only the fifth convict executed since Gary Gilmore swaggered to his death before a Utah firing squad in 1977 and ended the de facto ten-year moratorium on capital punishment. Unlike all except one of those recent predecessors, Brooks had not waived his legal appeals, but waged a court fight to the end. In addition, he was the first black put to death since 1967 and the first U.S. prisoner ever legally killed by intravenous injection. With the death-row census now above 1,100 and rising annually by more than 100, it seemed that the pace...
...nuclear arms race never became a major issue in most campaigns, but many Americans had the chance to register their feelings in statewide referenda. Ballots in nine states included nonbinding questions asking voters either whether they supported a moratorium on the production of nuclear weaponry, or whether they backed a mutually verifiable nuclear freeze. In eight of the nine states, voters said "yes"--including the Bay State, which logged in with nearly 70 percent of voters in favor of a moratorium. The nine simultaneous referenda together constitute the closest thing to a national referendum in American history, and as such...