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...wake of Kunduz and other rebel setbacks, Western analysts' predictions that major Afghan cities would fall quickly once the Soviets pulled out look overly optimistic. Says a Western diplomat in Kabul: "The mujahedin are not capable of waging large-scale conventional warfare. The regime still has superior firepower and transport capacity...
Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Hogoboom, who is hearing the suits, is one of several hundred so-called rent-a-judges active across the nation. The judges, who are retired from the regular bench, preside for fees that usually range from $150 to $300 an hour. In many cases, they act merely as arbitrators or nonbinding mediators. But in California and in at least a dozen other states, they can also conduct proceedings -- like the Harper- Lorimar trial -- that have most of the trappings of regular court sessions, including depositions, witnesses and verdicts. The parties in the Harper...
Hughes, a subsidiary of General Motors, contends that its proposal was technically superior but that it lost out because the FAA gave IBM "preferential treatment" that helped the firm submit an unfair lower bid. For one thing, Hughes says, it was not informed by the agency of changes in specifications that favored IBM. The complaint also focuses on the fact that if Hughes had won, it was going to buy many of the necessary computers from IBM. Hughes says that in preparing its bid, it received inflated cost estimates from IBM on equipment needed from the computer maker. According...
Babets and Jean filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court in January 1986 challenging the legality of the new DSS rules. The suit named Dukakis, Human Services Secretary Philip Johnston and DSS Commissioner Sandy Matava as defendants, although Dukakis was later dropped as a named defendant...
...trial in Superior Court, lawyers for Babets and Jean asked Judge James P. Lynch Jr. to order the Dukakis administration to divulge certain documents relating to the policymaking process...