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President Bok has not yet indicated when he will make his final choice, but a member of the administration committee said yesterday that there is a possibility that a decision could be reached before the March 26 spring recess...
Judge Carter needed a recess of only 20 minutes to make up his mind. He declared that despite all he had heard from her he could not believe Patty's claims that she had been coerced by the S.L.A. "I find," he said, "that the statements made by the defendant after the bank robbery, whether by tape, oral conversation or writing, were made voluntarily." With that, Carter allowed the prosecution to enter everything...
...special treatment to poor preschoolers; plans to retrain workers for better jobs. When Ford vetoed the bill on Dec. 19, the Democratic leaders in the House shrewdly decided against any immediate attempt to override. Instead, they mounted their effective attack on wobbly Republicans and conservative Democrats during the long recess. "We unleashed everybody," says Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill. "Every labor organization, every education organization, every health organization with clout...
...responsibility to respect those needs; does this mean that the majority should refrain from anything to which a significant minority objects, perhaps at the expense of being insensitive to needs of "majority students"? One suspects that if this were the case Harvard would have to abandon its four-day recess in November as being clearly discriminatory: there are many foreign students at Harvard for whom that break is doubtless too short a time to get home, even not to celebrate Thanksgiving...
After three days of debate, Tunney & Co. won, 54 to 22. The House vote will probably come next month. During the holiday recess, however, the Administration probably will try to come up with a compromise that will win enough votes to permit a limited U.S. involvement in Angola...