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Cohn called the law "burdensome and repressive" for the approximately 4500 teenagers who are expected to try to obtain an abction this year...
...nearly impossible to obtain further details about the massacre report, to investigate the site and confirm the charges. The El Salvadorean government has prevented the Legal Aid Commission and other church groups from visiting the area. The regime justifies sealing off the region because it's dangerous to visit. A spokesman from the El Salvadorean embassy in Washington denied that the government had closed off the area because it had something to hide...
...Israeli-supported Christian forces of Lebanese Major Sa'ad Haddad shelled Muslim and Palestinian sections of the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon, while Israeli paratroopers launched large-scale attacks against Palestinian strongholds in the area. With concerted international help, Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis managed to obtain a tenuous ceasefire. As International Red Cross convoys rushed into the stricken areas with medical assistance, the country counted the grim toll: at least 265 civilians killed, more than 1,000 wounded...
...opening argument, Assistant Prosecutor Edward A. McDonald depicted Williams as "a corrupt public official," who had promised to use his influence in Washington to obtain Government contracts for a titanium mine in Virginia. In return, the Senator was to receive part ownership of the mine and $12.6 million. McDonald, quoting from FBI tapes, said that Williams had told agents he would "with great pleasure talk to the President of the United States about [the mining contracts] and in a personal way get him as enthusiastic and excited." McDonald also quoted from tapes showing Williams pledging to "do everything...
...United States 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld a state law forbidding Grendel's Restaurant to obtain a liquor license because it is located within 500 feet of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Armenian Church...