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...extension permits. Heated discussion proceeded the November 23 hearing; the Chronicle ran several editorials urging the denial of their request, questioning the legality of the move and accusing the company of ulterior motives. At the meeting, one Alderman--Francis L. Chapman--requested a legal opinion from the city solicitor. A representative from C.R.R. countered that the city had no right to deny the request, that only the Supreme Court had jurisdiction. None of the debate really mattered. The Board voted to grant permission, Chapman casting the only dissenting vote...
...rejected the charges as "completely asinine." Said he: "The government has two people on our board to monitor our finances. Every cent we have ever had has been monitored by British internal revenue." Indeed, the Thatcher government went out of its way to downplay the affair. Britain's Solicitor-General Sir Ian Percival said that only "routine" inquiries were being made and stated flatly: "Neither the Prime Minister nor anyone else has ordered an investigation of the company's affairs or anything remotely like...
...case will be continued in Middlesex District Court for six months, after which all the charges will be erased, city solicitor Russell Higley said last night. "Conrad Fagone has been totally vindicated," Higley said...
...Harvard realizes, now that Proposition 21/2 is here, that they have a responsibility to the city, so they came up with the money," city solicitor Russell Higley, who negotiated the settlement for Cambridge, said last night...
Nowhere is the shift more apparent than in the field of civil rights. In briefs before the Supreme Court two weeks ago, Solicitor General Rex E. Lee startled the legal community by arguing that there was no "federal interest" in the questions of whether states can exclude the children of illegal aliens from public schools and whether it is unconstitutional for the states to ban voluntary busing. Both positions mark an abrupt break from previous Administrations-Republican as well as Democratic-and the first retreat on civil rights enforcement since the Truman era. The department is also reviewing federal affirmative...