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...plea to our European colleagues is that they engage in this process and become effectively involved in the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture," said Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeatter. "And there hasn't been much of that, thus...
...medical treatment of their daughter Nancy, who has lain in an irreversible coma ever since a car crash seven years ago, "the Cruzans would surely qualify." Despite all this sympathy, however, Rehnquist spoke last week for a 5-to-4 Supreme Court majority in regretfully rejecting the Cruzans' plea to have their daughter "set free...
...less to do with political attitudes toward F.D.R. than with bickering over the size of the monument. The design by San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin was finally approved by the Commission of Fine Arts, which had accepted a larger version of the concept in 1978. It took a plea last fall by Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, who had been a Senator when F.D.R. was President, to get a $5.8 million appropriation | passed to begin the $47 million project. Terminally ill with cancer, Pepper got out of bed to make his pitch in his last public appearance before he died...
...Bridget Mergens Mayhew, the idea of forming an extracurricular Christian club at Omaha's Westside High School five years ago seemed simple enough. "There are a lot of pressures on kids," she recalls, "and we just wanted to get together and pray." But school authorities turned down her plea, fearing it would violate the separation of church and state. The refusal touched off a fractious legal battle that last week culminated in a spectacular win for Mayhew and her friends: a major decision from the U.S. Supreme Court barring discrimination against voluntary religious clubs in public high schools. The court...
...negotiations between Durenberger and the committee appear to be taking place, although the Senator's aides say, "No options have been foreclosed." Congressional experts believe any "plea bargain" Durenberger might strike would have to include his resignation. "What Durenberger did was all calculated, not something he fell into," says one political consultant. "How could the Senate sweep it under the rug?" The rug is already bulging with scandals: ethics investigations are proceeding against Senators Alan Cranston, John McCain, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle and John Glenn for their ties to savings and loan operator Charles Keating; and New York Senator Alfonse...