Word: requesting
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...Italian government requested Kappler's extradition, but Bonn indicated that it would turn down the request. The West German constitution prohibits turning a German citizen over for foreign prosecution, and the Justice Ministry said that this applied even though Kappler was a war criminal. Nor was there much chance that Germany itself would prosecute Kappler. Despite a vigorous re-examination of the Nazi era in books and film (see following story), German opinion has favored his release because of his illness; the government itself requested clemency last year for the same reason...
According to Government informers, Provenzano and his muscleman, Salvatore Briguglio, ordered in early January 1973 that $500,000 in cash be delivered to a White House courier in Las Vegas. Provenzano allegedly told an associate he had collected the money at Fitzsimmons' request and that another $500,000 had been provided for Nixon -also on Fitzsimmons' orders-by Allen Dorfman, a convicted Chicago labor racketeer and adviser to the Teamsters Union pension fund. Provenzano was quoted further as saying the cash had been requested by White House Aide Charles Colson, who handled the Administration's relations with...
...support the Socialist approach, the P.S.D. was swayed by Scares' offer to include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with the party on future legislation. P.S.D. National Assembly members actually defied Leader Sa Carneiro's request that they abstain and voted with Scares, providing him with a healthy margin of victory...
Unpleasant Surprise. The Arabs were undoubtedly not too pleased that Begin was able to do a bit of concrete planning against another possible war while in Washington. In response to an earlier request, Washington agreed to provide $106 million for the production of a new Israeli tank called the Merkava (chariot) and to supply Israel with 18 attack helicopters and an undetermined number of F-16 fighters. As proof that the country was prepared to do a bit of belt tightening before making new requests, Begin's government last week sprang an unpleasant surprise on Israeli consumers. Finance Minister...
...Rockefeller scientists base their grim conclusions on an 18-day tour of China completed in May. Nearly two years in the planning, the trip to the People's Republic was arranged at Seitz's request after several groups of Chinese scientists had visited the U.S. and toured Rockefeller, which counts 16 Nobel laureates among its alumni and faculty. The eleven American scientists visited five major Chinese cities, half a dozen universities and nine of the country's 100 research institutes, many of which exist in name only. With few exceptions, they found their hosts open and eager...