Word: requested
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...ministers was a masterpiece of double-talk, reaffirming NATO's determination to maintain an up-to-date nuclear capability but setting no date for deploying the new missile. The ambiguous Brussels agreement was enough, however, to permit American Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to proceed with a two-year budget request for $150 million for research and development of a new weapon...
...American law is sometimes longer than many lawbreakers imagine, and last week it reached around the world to seize two very different suspects. At the request of the U.S., Swiss authorities went to the posh Schweizerhof Hotel in Bern and arrested Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi millionaire and arms dealer implicated in the Iran-contra scandal. Khashoggi is wanted in New York City on racketeering charges stemming from real estate dealings involving former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos...
Precedent, though, is not encouraging. Last year the Greek Justice Minister overruled a court decision favoring an Italian extradition request for Palestinian Abdel Osama Al-Zomar, wanted for a bloody attack on a Rome synagogue that killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 34 people. The Minister decreed that Al-Zomar's actions fell "within the domain of the struggle to regain the independence of his homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing...
...abortion rights. After the march, they hit the offices of Capitol Hill lawmakers to lobby for a federal law that would keep abortion legal even if the court reverses Roe. Activists dumped 200,000 letters at the Justice Department last week, urging Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to drop his request to the court that it overturn Roe. "This has for the past 15 years been a legal struggle," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It has now become a political struggle...
...soulful. Now Phoebe Snow is back, with her first album in eight years, whose title, Something Real, is a cool bit of understatement. The record is so real -- so immediate -- that the feelings described in its ten songs become almost palpable. The rhythms swing easy and rock on request, but the tunes have lyrics so vivid that each becomes an epigram from a broken heart...