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...week. Justice clumsily announced that the department had seen fit to work out a very special deal with the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As Helms and his renowned attorney Edward Bennett Williams walked into a federal district courtroom last Monday to file a nolo contendere plea to two misdemeanor counts against Helms for failing to testify fully before a Senate committee four years ago, Bell at that moment was informing President Carter of his "just and fair disposition" of the case. Confronted with a virtual fait accompli, Carter hastily gave Bell his consent, and the four...
...rein in the freewheeling Ritter. The U.S. Attorney for Utah, Ramon Child, last month filed an unprecedented petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, demanding Ritter's disqualification from any case involving the Federal Government. Last week Utah Attorney General Robert Hansen filed a similar plea for all cases involving his state. In Washington, the Senate has authorized an admittedly superfluous third federal judge for Utah, and a House subcommittee has approved repeal of a grandfather clause, which could also cost Ritter his power to assign cases. (Congress exempted 32 sitting chiefs of two-judge districts...
Healey did make a plea for further wage restraint. He tentatively promised more tax cuts and spending increases next spring?but only if unions adhere to the 10% wage guideline. Even if they do, some economists worry, the Labor government in its rush to secure victory at the polls may spur a new round of inflationary consumer spending. Labor Party leaders said at Brighton that Britain ought to spend North Sea revenues to modernize its industry and build new income-producing businesses. By giving most of its goodies to consumers, this minibudget goes in the opposite direction...
...growing impact was demonstrated during the closing days of the Dominican crusade, when he flew to strife-torn Colombia to address a "Banquet of Hope" attended by 2,500 civic leaders. The principal guest, Colombia's President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, showered Palau with congratulations. He responded with a blunt plea for the Colombian elite to turn to God and foster a spiritual reawakening. The Colombians who arranged the banquet, Palau told TIME, think that "the only ideology that can stop Marxist-Leninism or the disintegration of our society is Evangelical Christianity...
...Dole (R.-Kan.), Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.), Henry Bellmon (R.-Okla.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and others fought to extend the Nutrition Committee on a year-by-year basis, as had been done in the past. Nutritions ranking minority member Charles Percy (R.-Ill.) made the impassioned plea...