Word: reliefs
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...workplace. The law would not apply to dormitories or to restaurants, which are already required by a city ordinance to reserve at least one quarter of their seats for non-smokers. The council ought to make the new proposal law as soon as possible. It will provide welcome relief for the city's non-smokers without making unreasonable demands on those who smoke...
President Reagan will be heaving a sigh of relief in Washington today because Brown students voted last night not to impeach him by a narrow 51 percent...
Despite his attempts to remain optimistic, Jacobsen became more discouraged as the months dragged on. Last November he was one of the signers of a letter to Reagan that appealed to the President to negotiate their release. When one of the other hostages, Father Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Catholic relief-agency official, was freed by his captors in July, he carried with him a videotape recording of Jacobsen. On it, Jacobsen said he "felt like one of Custer's men," adding, "You know the end of their stories. Pray that ours will have a happier ending." In another videotape released...
...played by Linda Hamilton. She replaces Kong's broken heart with, of course, the latest and largest in artificial tickers. She also arranges a blind date with a brown-haired lovely called Lady Kong. "He gives up on the (human) girls this time," notes Hamilton with a trace of relief. "He falls in love with a woman his own size." Having finally met the gorilla of his dreams, Kong gives up his swinging ways long enough to become something of a family man. The result: a 7-ft., 200-lb. bundle of joy known as -- kitschy- kitschy-koo -- Baby Kong...
...open secret in Central America, brought new problems for Duarte as he struggled with the impact of the Oct. 10 earthquake in the capital of San Salvador that left more than 600 dead and thousands homeless. Duarte last week received a promise of $50 million in U.S. disaster relief from visiting U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who strove to downplay the contra problem. Shultz said the shot-down contra supply plane "was not part of the government's operation...