Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine incumbents plus 10 challengers are in the race. Councilors are elected by citywide proportional representation, so voters in any part of the city may show their preferences by listing nine names in priority order...
Foreign shopping fever reaches even into the country's remote fastnesses. When the brash British raider Sir James Goldsmith calculated that U.S. timberland was becoming a tempting prize, he launched a $500 million takeover bid at San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach paper company in order to grab the corporation's vast forests. As a result of the 1985 takeover, Goldsmith now owns 1.9 million acres of American forests in Washington State and Oregon...
Conservatives were further alarmed last week by a report in the Washington Times that Reagan had chosen Paul Nitze to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Actually, White House sources say no appointment is imminent; they speculate that the story was leaked in order to mobilize opposition to Nitze, who was once viewed as a hawk but is now thought by - conservatives to be too eager for a grand compromise with Moscow on strategic weapons. The right would prefer Edward Rowny, who, like Nitze, is a special adviser to the President on arms-control matters. Ronald Lehman, a member...
...Manila Bay. Participants in the four previous uprisings against her have generally been let off lightly, but U.S. officials are counseling firmness this time. "Heads have to roll," says a Pentagon official. Already the President may be wavering. The government even seemed to be backing off from its earlier order to shoot Honasan on sight. And though she had earlier said the time for reconciliation had passed, last week Aquino almost seemed to be providing alibis for many of her prisoners. "When we interviewed the captives," Aquino said on television, "we found that the enlisted men had been told that...
Editor Arun Shourie asserted that the real goal was to make an example of the paper in order to "silence the rest of the press." Recent Express editorials have battered Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and the paper's reports on corruption have forced the resignation of a close Gandhi associate in Parliament. The government said the raid found that the Express had evaded $257,000 in customs duties. The paper called the charges "lies" and said it would fight in court...