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Although Superior Court Judge Herbert Abrams yesterday revoked his decision to suspend the prison sentences of five men who Monday pleaded guilty to the rape of a Whitman, Mass., woman, State Rep. Saundra Graham from Cambridge continued to call for Gov. Edward J. King to investigate whether Abrams handled the case properly...
Walter Sullivan's motion sought to exempt the condo owners from the complicated rent control guidelines. But Councilor David Sullivan, a strong supporter of the anti-conversion ordinances, said last night that the council might not have the power, without amending the ordinances themselves, to suspend the rent control board examination process...
...court in a 31-page decision held that the President had the authority to nullify the attachments and return Iran's assets under the broad terms of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The President also had the authority to suspend claims against Iran, the court said. Justice William Rehnquist, who wrote the decision, found support for this in a long history of congressional acquiescence to foreign claims settlements by the Executive...
...meeting in Curawara, a resistance committee for the valley was formed and the first decision made was that no agricultural produce would leave for La Paz, in keeping with the strike and blockades called by CONADE. They also decided to suspend sports events and observance of religious holidays that would detract from the efforts at hand. Then the assembly addressed the question of security. The campesinos were assigned to guard the lower valley, the only alternative entrance to Viloco. Each community was responsible for providing 15 men for a 24 hour shift. Women stepped forward and asked what they could...
...retrenchment came as no surprise to foreign companies that in the past month alone have had Peking cancel or suspend five major projects worth $2.5 billion. Most seriously affected are Japanese and West German firms that rushed into the Chinese market in 1978 and 1979, at the outset of Peking's ambitious drive for industrial expansion. Japanese companies, including Toyo Engineering K.K. and Mitsui Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., have lost $640 million worth of contracts to build seven turnkey petrochemical plants in Nanjing, Shengli and Peking. Of its five contracts for similar plants, Lurgi Gesellschaften, a Frankfurt-based engineering combine...