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...Boston Red Sox were hoping for a team May Day celebration today as they renewed their attempts to re-sign free agent Rich Gedman and get the hard-hitting catcher back into uniform...
...years such disparities have troubled both liberals concerned about equal justice and conservatives fuming over lenient sentences. To make punishment more uniform, and more certain, Congress in 1984 authorized a commission to devise new sentencing formulas for use in federal courts, where some 40,000 criminal sentences are handed down annually. After 18 months of hearings and study, the U.S. Sentencing Commission last week issued its guidelines. Their tangle of numerical tables may rationalize court penalties, but they are expected to add thousands of inmates to already overflowing prisons...
...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...
...country's political processes, with President Hosni Mubarak pressing forward with reforms; during my visit, his associates and the multiple opposition forces were also marshaling their strength for the April 6 elections. Egypt's news media have been given unprecedented freedom, and in my wide-ranging discussions I found uniform concern about the nation's economic plight and strong and healthy public and private assessments of Mubarak's administration. Although one private opinion poll shows that more than 80% of the people approve the peace treaty with Israel, many Egyptians feel that without the restraints of this treaty the tragic...
...plainly that the line still exists. Los Angeles Dodgers Vice President Al Campanis, 70, a former minor-league shortstop when Robinson was a second baseman in Montreal, was questioned by ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel about the utter absence of black managers and general managers and the uniform dearth of black executives in what is billed as the great American pastime. Campanis replied, "I truly believe that they may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or perhaps a general manager . . . Well, I don't say all of them, but they certainly...