Word: ronald
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California legislators voted last year to reduce marijuana possession to a misdemeanor, but Governor Ronald Reagan vetoed the bill. State law now offers a range of penalties for first-offense pot possession from probation to a ten-year jail term. The nation's harshest drug law is New York's, making life sentences mandatory for some hard-drug offenses but leaving marijuana possession punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. State police officials say that enforcement will be minimal against pot smokers. Prosecution of pushers in New York, as in all other states, will remain...
...reacting to the accumulated strains of many months. There was the President, striding up the ramp toward the Rivergate convention center in New Orleans, pursued by a cluster of reporters and TV cameramen. Suddenly, his face contorted in a burst of anger, he turned on his press secretary, Ronald Ziegler, who was following him. He seized Ziegler roughly by both shoulders, spun him round, and gave him a hard shove in the direction of his pursuers. "I don't want any press with me," he snapped. "And you take care...
...chance for the G.O.P. nomi nation in 1976. Last week the chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Di vision, Henry E. Petersen, drove to Baltimore to inspect the evidence against Agnew collected by Beall and his three assistants, Barnet D. Skolnik, Russell T. Baker Jr. and Ronald S. Liebman...
...RONALD J. GLASSER, M.D. 232 pages. George Braziller...
...background of Dr. Ronald Glasser's chronicle of hospital life are other children with fatal, costly chronic diseases, like the four-year-old boy plagued by unsuccessful kidney transplants. Mary's father stirs up a campaign of timid, deferential parents against the doctors, who never explain...