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Another section requiring federal standards for child-care services was eased in order to allow the states to establish their own guidelines, thereby winning the endorsement of the National Governors' Association.
Houphouet-Boigny, who converted to Roman Catholicism as an orphaned teenager, views his basilica as a pilgrimage center for Africa's 73 million Catholics and a bulwark against Islam and animism in his own country, which counts about 1 million Christians in a population of 10 million. As many as...
Elections for the Strasbourg-based assembly, once consigned to the status of a European debating society, are fast becoming a bellwether for European politics. Thatcher aides sought to downplay the Tory defeat by arguing that the culprit was domestic discontent with Britain's 15% interest rates and 8.3% inflation. Even...
The excruciating saga of Pete Rose and gambling seemed to be coming to a shuddering finish last week. A common-pleas judge in Cincinnati was pondering whether to issue a temporary restraining order -- and perhaps turn the Rose investigation over to the courts -- or leave Rose to face Baseball Commissioner...
The "questionable wisdom" of bestowing absolute authority on a single person was brought up in passing by U.S. district court Judge Frank McGarr in 1977. But he used that phrase in the process of rejecting a complaint by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley that Kuhn was wrecking him financially...