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...same size in Alabama, where 55 men await the chair in Holman. Mitchell Rutledge, 23 years old, I.Q. 84, is among them. "You're just sitting there waiting for somebody to come kill you," says Rutledge of his purgatory, "just like a dog out there in the dog pound." But he does not claim innocence. No: he did kill a man two days before Christmas 1980. Rutledge was doped up and drunk with two friends. One pal brought along a gun, and with it they took off on a joyride in the van of a driver they had robbed...
...Israeli-Lebanese negotiations, there is little doubt that President Reagan's decision to send Habib back to the Middle East provided a badly needed stimulant. Habib is regarded in the area as the President's top representative and a tough negotiator who can shout and pound on tables as the need arises. In his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin last week, Habib delivered a letter from Reagan that, according to Israeli government officials, said the President attaches importance to his meeting with Begin next month and wants it to go ahead as planned...
Financial tremors seem to be Malkin's lot. While in London in 1967, he covered the devaluation of the British pound. In 1981 he spent his Christmas holiday reporting the implications of martial law on Poland's unpayable debt. In deed, as a journalist moving around the world for two decades, he has been forced to maintain bank accounts in half a dozen countries and to watch helplessly as currencies fluctuated...
Upton, however, said picketing "absolutely must be outside the building," adding. "There's a lot of traffic going on within Pound Hall We can't have classes obstructed...
...decline, they could take a loss. With state and local governments expected to issue record volumes of bonds in 1983, Lebenthal plans to be busier than ever. Though his firm has just 32 sales people, a tiny force compared with giants like Merrill Lynch, he brags: "Pound for pound, we may sell more municipal bonds than any other firm in America...