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...bipartisan burst, few bothered to point out that the impact of jobs programs usually comes only after recovery is under way. House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois appointed a ten-member task force to write a jobs bill. Senators Howard Baker of Tennessee and Paul Laxalt of Nevada met with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese to enlist his support. Later in the week the White House announced that Reagan was considering a limited and as yet unformulated plan to speed up Government construction projects in order to create more jobs...
...kickback of $55,000 on a pension-fund loan and served nine months in jail. Last December, as a result of an FBI probe dubbed "Operation Pendorf' (for penetrate Dorfman), he and Teamsters President Roy Williams were convicted of conspiring to bribe former Democratic Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada in return for his putative help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. Scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, Dorfman, 60, faced up to 55 years in prison...
...Aide Kenneth Duberstein had learned their views in advance and worked out a coordinated presentation. Basically, the Representatives and Senators told Reagan that he must propose a reduction in military spending and some kind of tax changes in order to present a budget that Congress would even consider seriously. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, made the deepest impression on the President. Laxalt advocated a standby tax increase and some kind of spending hold-down that, he warned Reagan, would have to include reductions in planned military outlays...
...slaying of a San Francisco hotel executive in the Lake Tahoe, Nev., area. Sidote implicated Foat, from whom he was divorced in the late 1960s, in both crimes. Remarried and living in a Los Angeles suburb, Foat was arrested for the first time on May 25, 1977, for the Nevada murder. At the trial in Carson City, however, Sidote abruptly refused to testify against Foat, and the judge released her for lack of evidence. Louisiana police promptly rebooked her as a suspect in the New Orleans slaying. But, in one of the case's many twists, no formal indictment...
...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...