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...ruling resulted from a lawsuit filed in 1982 by black and Hispanic groups claiming that redistricting a year earlier was illegally rigged to minimize minority voting power. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Norgle Sr. ordered the boundaries for seven wards redrawn. Observers expect Vrdolyak's forces to retain at least two districts and Washington to pick up a minimum of three. That would leave the balance of power resting on the remaining two races, both in heavily Hispanic wards. Considering the stakes, it is a good bet that Chicago's two Democratic power brokers will spend the winter brushing...
Goodbye, David Stockman, and good riddance. Thomas W. Young Sr. Denison, Texas...
...officials were alerted to the shipments last month when routine satellite surveillance spotted five Soviet ships loaded with crates docked at a Nicaraguan port near Bluefields. On Oct. 31, their suspicions were raised further when an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane photographed military equipment that is commonly used by the Nicaraguans being unloaded from other Soviet ships in the Cuban port of Mariel. The intelligence analysts say the deliveries included at least two batteries of SA-2 or SA-3 surface-to-air missiles, which reportedly will be installed at the Punta Huete air base near Managua. The Soviets also...
Democrats were right to stand up to Bob Casey Sr. 12 years ago because refusing to support the presidential nominee hurts the party. But all Bob Casey Jr. wants to do is help...
...Deep Throat would be shot in Miami. Why? Mainly because nearby Fort Lauderdale was the base of operations for Damiano's underworld sponsor. (You need money for a porno in 1971, you don't go to Chase Manhattan.) Louis Peraino, known as Butchie, was the son of Anthony Peraino, Sr., a made man in the Columbo family; one of the five Mafia gangs that ruled New York City. Butchie, who put up the $25,000 for the movie and received producer credit (as "Lou Perry"), was volubly apprehensive about Damiano's new starlet. Lovelace subsequently explained "why Butchie...