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After hearing dozens of complaints from victimized tenants, the students decided that existing law gave little protection from landlords who refused to repair tenements. They drafted a remedial bill and lobbied it through the state legislature. Now Michigan tenants have more legal ammunition in disputes with owners...
...summertime entertainment, the popular novel retains certain distinct advantages over even the most portable television set. The book is easy to operate and almost never needs repair. It functions at all altitudes and particularly well at sea level, where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats, Chinese Communists, members of the Italian-American Civil Rights League or Hungarians overly sensitive to the revolving-door joke (they go in behind you, but come out in front...
...convinced that Washington is using such aid as both carrot and stick to force it into unwanted compromises. The Israelis told Helms that since the Soviets are moving inexorably southward toward East Africa and the Indian Ocean, establishing a naval presence and setting up ports of call and repair facilities, friendly nations such as Israel ought to be included in Western defense planning. On that basis, the Israelis argue, arms shipments ought to be determined according to strategic priorities, and not be subject to the more local pressures of the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...soon as he arrived, early last year, he went to the police. But no fugitive warrant had been served for him, and he was not held. Stiggers quickly started putting himself together, earned a diploma in auto repair at a community college, and worked as a busboy, dishwasher, mechanic and carpenter. Then, almost a year later, the Arkansas fugitive warrant arrived and he was arrested...
...crazy simply by living in the same house. With the awful logic of the mad, she considers and rejects any amelioration of her condition; she is under a "glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air." Rescued from a suicide attempt, she starts the long process of mental repair in an asylum...