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Among other things, according to Shrum, Carter has indicated to intimates that he was having second thoughts about his pledges to suspend the B-l bomber program and to trim the Pentagon budget. Carter denied Shrum's charges, explaining that he still opposed the B-l bomber and would cut defense spending by $5-$7 billion in his first year as President but had never promised to continue to cut year after year...
...February, the Medical School faculty voted to suspend the school's involvement in the planning of a new Iranian Health Center with Columbia and Cornell Medical schools. The reasons for the suspension of involvement remain unclear...
William Schneider, assistant professor of Government and research fellow at the Center for International Affairs, said Reagan decided before the primary to suspend campaigning for a week and to appear on prime-time television, perhaps to announce his withdrawal. "If Reagan withdraws, he can argue that he really wasn't forced out" and won't be resigning in humiliation, Schneider said...
...against Patty and her parents, Bailey hotly told Carter: "I do not think that you can in good conscience, as a human being-that you can require her to sit up here and invite someone to carry out those threats." Bailey then said he would ask the judge to suspend the trial while the defense appealed his ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals...
Although the nine Justices issued nine separate opinions in the court's 1972 decision, the overall vote to suspend the death penalty was 5 to 4. Since then, 34 states have passed new laws trying to meet the various objections raised by the Justices. That in itself seems to indicate that there is substantial popular sentiment for execution in certain specified crimes-a point that could influence the court. Moreover, retired Justice William O. Douglas, who broadly opposed the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment, has been replaced by John Paul Stevens, whose legal philosophy is more moderate...