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...Florida Supreme Court yesterday denied Secretary of State Katherine Harris' request to stop manual recounts in progress in several counties. Bush had joined the lawsuit early yesterday...
...years ago, CRLS teachers held a vote at D'Alessandro's request to decide the future of the faculty committee. Only 40 percent favored continuing with the existing process. The majority chose to hand over responsibility to the school department...
...That's a big loss for Katherine Harris and the Bush campaign, which was hoping to have them declared in violation of Florida law. (The federal appeals court in Atlanta has agreed to hear the case, by the way.) The Florida high court also denied Harris's request to have all election-related lawsuits consolidated in the local circuit court in Tallahassee (something else the Bush campaign wanted), but said nothing about taking the bundle on themselves, which was Warren Christopher's proffer to the Bush camp earlier in the day. (Christopher's reason for proposal may just have something...
...Which brings us back to the Florida Supremes, which moved ahead, but did not rule, on a request by Palm Beach County that it clarify conflicting rulings on the recounts from Secretary of State Katherine Harris and Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth, a Democrat. The court set a deadline for early Thursday for legal briefs in that lawsuit, and also agreed to allow the Gore campaign and Broward County to join...
...bomb attack that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and an American aide, Ronni Moffit, in Washington. U.S. intelligence was aware that the general, long considered one of Washington's key allies in the region, had contacted Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner in the summer of that year to request Paraguayan passports to enable Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez to travel under cover to the U.S. The men, both Chilean intelligence operatives, were later convicted of carrying out the attack. The man convicted in 1993 of ordering the attack, Pinochet's intelligence chief General Manuel Contreras, has also been shown...