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Last April, Evan Mecham became the first U.S. Governor to be impeached in 59 years. Last week it looked as if the impolitic Arizona politician might also be facing a prison term. But after a little more than six hours of deliberation, a jury acquitted Mecham and his brother Willard of charges that they violated election laws by concealing a $350,000 campaign loan...
When Howard Baker signed on as Ronald Reagan's third chief of staff in February 1987, he vowed he would be around to turn out the White House lights at the end of the President's second term. Last week, however, the former Senate majority leader from Tennessee decided to call it quits. The lights are still burning at the White House. But with Baker scheduled to depart on July 1 and evening shadows fast gathering around the Reagan presidency, some in Washington are wondering who will be there to flick the switches next January...
There is no painless way out of this bind. Arms control is a fiscal wash for the short term: verification costs money, and so will additional weapons systems required to replace those being scrapped. But Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who is trying to pep up a stagnating economy, seems to be casting about for a way to cut Soviet military spending. He has talked about a shift in the U.S.S.R.'s military doctrine from offense to defense. That implies restructuring the Soviet armed forces, making them adequate to defend the U.S.S.R. but not to launch an offensive...
...people of Lawrenceburg, Tenn. (pop. 15,000), have one word they want to holler at Electrolux, the Stockholm-based appliance maker: Nej! The term (pronounced nay) is Swedish for no and expresses the intense local resentment toward Electrolux's two-month-old effort to buy Murray Ohio Manufacturing, a Tennessee bicycle and lawn-mower manufacturer that employs 2,900 workers at its Lawrenceburg plant...
Such problems are partly because of a shortage of attorneys willing to spend some time representing the poor free of charge. Pro bono work is the trade term for it, from the Latin pro bono publico, meaning "for the public good." It has long been a tenet of the profession that all lawyers should devote part of their time to such work. The U.S. Supreme Court has guaranteed a lawyer, at government expense if necessary, to every criminal defendant who faces prison. Though in civil matters, everything from custody proceedings to deportation hearings, the poor must rely on the generosity...