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Deukmejian had much less difficulty saying goodbye. Rejecting the pleas of California Republicans, the two-term Governor, 60, who now earns an $85,000 salary, insisted he wished to return to private life. Concluded a political observer: "The bottom line is that he's tired and wants to make some...
Ronald Reagan, meanwhile, had been getting a fusillade of transatlantic telephone calls urging him to be more sensitive to Arafat's position and readier to accept his concessions. Repeated pleas came from Egypt's Mubarak, Jordan's Hussein, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. Just as important, such close U.S. friends...
"People donate their bodies to science for specific purposes and feel they are making an informed decision," Common Pleas Court Judge Mark Bernstein said at Spector's sentencing. "Dr. Spector has trampled on the rights of people who were doing a humane service for the good of science."
Nearly all the invaders were believed to be former Tamil separatist guerrillas from Sri Lanka, apparently in the pay of Maldivian elements hostile to Gayoom. The President issued pleas for military intervention from India and the U.S. as well as Britain, which held Maldives as a protectorate from 1887 until...
Thatcher made a modest offer to give Poles management training but snubbed the government's pleas for Western loans and relief on Poland's $36.4 billion foreign debt. The day when Polish officials grant real political freedoms, she said, "you will find your friends ready, not just to stand and...