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...demoted partisans like liberal environmental activist Terry Tamminen and Kennedy's predecessor, conservative Republican Patricia Clarey. He is courting?or, some suggest, co-opting? Democrats on pet issues like raising the minimum wage and freezing tuition at state colleges. But at the same time, he followed the politically safe precedent???no California Governor had commuted a death sentence in 38 years?and denied clemency to death-row inmate Stanley (Tookie) Williams...
...convertible to fighters) which were removed a year ago from the list of articles under embargo, were restored to the embargo list. 4) The U.S. sold to Mexico some 10,000 Enfield rifles and 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition from U. S. reserve stores. This was done on precedent???5,000 rifles were sold to Mexico at the time of the Huerta revolution in 1924, and payment was promptly made...
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