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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Area quake, officially known as the Loma Prieta Quake after a mountain perched almost atop the epicenter, was retrospectively upgraded last week to 7.1 on the Richter scale, vs. an original 6.9. Big all right, but still...
Ford goes about doing good while doing well. He plays golf all over the world for fun and charity, reminds everybody he was an Eagle Scout and still lives by the code, practices old-fashioned partisan politics in election season and openly relishes the money from the boardroom...
...stiff prison term once again drew attention to the glaring inequalities that often characterize sentencing decisions in the U.S. Despite efforts at reform, much of the nation's criminal sentencing system is still based on an idiosyncratic set of decisions made by crime-busting legislatures and individual trial judges. New York State law, for example, sets extremely broad parameters for various crimes -- one to 25 years for a bank robbery, 1 1/2 to 15 years for first-degree assault -- but leaves it to the discretion of each judge to fix the actual sentence. The theory behind this system is that...
...Prime Minister Mazowiecki has no plans to withdraw Poland from the Warsaw Pact, and an alliance declaration in July forbade the use of pact troops in the affairs of member nations. Still, Poland plans to push for further bilateral assurances. The Soviets are pressing NATO for a mutual phasing out of the Eastern and Western military alliances, but Moscow is certain to reject individual initiatives by pact members. As Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last week, "We may witness a change of government in Warsaw or Budapest, but international obligations do not necessarily go away with a change of government...
When Oliver and Waldeck are not on the road together, they split up. Oliver now lives in Austin, and Waldeck's home is still Philadelphia, where he moonlights with a local folk-rock rhythm-and-blues band called the Roosters. Oliver spends many nights playing with Austin's Otter Space Band and many days presenting environment programs in Texas secondary and elementary schools. "We want to pass on our ideas to youngsters," he says. He also composes public-service jingles for cities and towns. One water-conservation message was titled "Please Don't Leave the Water Running When You Wash...