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...moderate Republican, Thornburgh, 56, was respected as chief of the department's criminal division under Gerald Ford. He won election to two terms as Pennsylvania Governor, earning a reputation for steadiness in his handling of the 1979 nuclear-power-plant crisis at Three Mile Island. Asked what he would do if required to review the ethics of his predecessor, Thornburgh replied that he would "follow the evidence wherever it may lead...
...games earned Bally $91 million in 1982, but in 1983 the video craze cooled and profits plummeted to $5.2 million. Bally, which owns four gambling casinos in Nevada and New Jersey, will keep making slot machines and video lottery games, which earned $182 million last year. In the Chicago plant used to make the arcade games, Bally will produce weight-lifting machines and other health-club equipment for Life Fitness, a subsidiary...
...vote when Republican Senator Phil Gramm of Texas implored his colleagues to repeal it "in a future year." A future nonelection year, Gramm might have added. The Senate, a third of whose members must face the voters this year, was about to pass a broadly popular bill requiring plant owners to notify workers 60 days in advance of closings or wholesale layoffs. Despite Ronald Reagan's threatened veto, 19 Republicans joined 53 Democrats to forge a 72-to-23 victory. With that lopsided vote, the bill's supporters can easily override a presidential veto -- if it comes...
Above all, it was a political issue. Reagan's veto allowed the Democrats to remind voters that they are the party of the workingman. Their strategy: separate the trade bill (which both business and labor want) from the plant- closing provision, virtually daring Republicans to vote against the latter. Chortled a Democratic aide: "We win either way. The working stiff gets his notification, or we have one hell of an issue right through to November...
Happily faced with a no-lose situation, Byrd, who sponsored the bill along with Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, repeatedly turned back Republican pleas for compromise. Once armed with the votes, they handily defeated an amendment that would have exempted layoffs, as opposed to outright plant closings, from the 60-day notification requirement...