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...necessary, since the two nations have a mutual defense pact. Cairo will also buy reconnaissance drones and sophisticated aerial cameras. President Carter promised in addition to look after Sudan's "legitimate defense needs." A U.S. military team will fly to Khartoum in August to assess Numeiry's plea for U.S.-built F-5E fighter planes. Requests from Chad will be "considered sympathetically," Carter added...
...city's courts and prisons were swamped. At Beame's urging, prosecutors refused to plea bargain with suspected looters and arsonists or agree to release them without bail. As a result, police station houses and courthouse holding pens were jammed with prisoners?up to ten in small cells designed to hold one person...
Most professional pollsters, jurists and prosecutors in Cleveland dismiss Perk's poll as far less than objective. Among other things, the mayor prefaced his questionnaire with a plea "to have evidence to present in court which will make it unlawful to peddle obscene material in Cleveland." Perk, not so incidentally, plans to run for re-election in November...
Ignoring the plea of their chief, delegates to the convention of the Transport and General Workers' Union last week voted for a motion that effectively scuttled the landmark agreement on wage restraint between Britain's unions and the Labor government of Prime Minister James Callaghan. The vote to demand substantial wage increases was a deep personal humiliation for Jones, who in 1973 had helped draw up the agreement. In a weary voice, he declared that the TGWU action would lead to "a wage scramble, renewed inflation, increased unemployment and new trouble for the pound...
...regional official's ruling that the water-discharge system was unacceptable. Promises Clamshell Spokesman Harvey Wasserman: "We're not going to let the plant be built. Our survival depends upon it." Those who last week took to the streets of Manchester could make the same emotional plea...