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...University filed suit against Cambridge in Middlesex District Court last week to obtain higher payment for a plot of land which the city took by eminent domain...
...rising dissatisfaction among the junior officers. Bearing the brunt of the fighting against the guerrillas, the lieutenants, captains and majors had become increasingly bitter over the corruption of the Lucas García regime, and wanted to clean up the country's human rights image in order to obtain U.S. military aid. They therefore called for fair elections and an end to el continuismo, the old-boy network of senior military officers that has ruled the country for the past 27 years. Instead, the March 7 balloting was marred by numerous irregularities, charges of fraud and the victory...
Murdoch aides blamed Evans for dividing the staff and failing to keep to his budget, a figure the editor's camp claims Evans could never even obtain, despite repeated attempts. Evans is said to be bound to silence by his severance agreement, but friends maintain that the real issue was politics. Under Evans the Times was sympathetic to the new centrist Social Democratic Party, while Murdoch reportedly wanted the paper behind Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...Supreme Judicial Court in 1980 stated in ruling the death penalty unconstitutional: "While this court has the power to correct constitutional or other errors by ordering new trials for capital defendents whose appeals are pending or who have been fortunate enough to obtain stays of execution or commutations, it cannot, of course, raise the dead." Legislators should not push Massachusetts into following others in this practice, but rather, should preserve this state as an example...
...potential damage goes far beyond cost overruns and sloppy budgeting. Because the Pentagon in effect is able to pay whatever is necessary to obtain a product or service, it forces up prices for civilian industries that compete for the same resources. James Capra, senior economist of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, says with blunt certainty, "Demand from the buildup will mean a higher inflation rate for the next few years than would be the case without...