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...N.F.L. Players Association members who have objected have not merely been shouted down but threatened. "We get to see you on the field next year," N.F.L.P.A. President Gene Upshaw of the Oakland Raiders wrote to Denver Quarterback Craig Morton, after Morton had spoken out against the "55% solution." When asked later about the letter, Upshaw said, "If you want to look at it as a threat, that's just the way I meant...
Could this be the year when the gun-control tide finally began to turn? First peaceful Morton Grove, Ill, enacted a ban on handguns, then Chicago passed a handgun freeze prohibiting new registrations. Last week San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed an ordinance making it illegal to carry or even keep a handgun at home. Handgun owners (the military and armored-vehicle drivers, among others, are exempted) have until the end of October to either get their weapons out of the city or store them permanently at a licensed shooting range. The maximum sentence: six months in jail...
...deny, some question whether he will be in a position to display it. Bechtel lobbied for Senate approval of the sale of AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia, and American Jewish groups have already expressed concern that Shultz will be less supportive of Israel's security interests. Says Morton Kaplan, a professor of international affairs at Chicago: "Shultz is in a particularly weak position to put pressure on the Israelis. They'll use the Bechtel connection to put pressure...
...retired from the agency in 1955. Shortley is a longtime friend of Edward V. Hickey, director of special support services for the White House and a casual acquaintance of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Shortley's wife Maiselle works at the White House as an aide to Morton Blackwell, a liaison with conservative groups. Anthony Dolan, a Reagan speechwriter, is Shortley's brother-in-law; so is John T. ("Terry") Dolan, director of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which raised more than $7 million for conservative candidates in the 1980 campaign. Shortley insists that...
Nixon had no comments, but no doubt welcomes the help that the ruling should provide in one other case. He and his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger were sued for monetary damages by former Aide Morton Halperin for wiretaps placed on Halperin's phone from 1969 to 1971. Nixon should now be able to get these charges dismissed...