Word: use
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...drawn fire from liberals, especially Minister for Special Affairs Rosa Russo Jervolino, chief author of a new antidrug law calling for stiffer sentences for traffickers, more support for police, and better rehabilitation programs. However, her original version let stand the provision allowing "modest" amounts of drugs for personal use. Craxi blocked passage of the bill, and in the process touched a vein of public support: a survey by the newsweekly Panorama shows that 57% of Italians think users ought to be punished. Jervolino was irate: "Prison never helped any drug user." But a revised version of the new legislation that...
Competition from rivals MCI and Sprint hastened the move. Both companies can undercut AT&T's tolls on long-distance calls because their networks use fiber- optic cable almost exclusively. The light-wave lines, which transmit a signal faster than ordinary cables and produce clearer sound than satellite communications, form less than half of AT&T's telephone grid...
...graymail." To laymen, it looks suspiciously close to blackmail since it forces the prosecution to make a choice: let the secrets be revealed or drop the relevant charges. North has insisted that more than 3,500 classified documents are vital to his defense. Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh wants to use about 400 secret papers, from which a special interagency group made numerous deletions to protect national security. North's lawyers have objected to nearly all these exclusions. If the judge decides the deleted information is necessary for North's defense, the conspiracy charge, which is the most far-ranging...
Will Trump use his audience with Gorbachev to revive the deal? Trump, who does not discourage talk of his presidential ambitions and who buys newspaper ads laying out his plans for world nuclear disarmament, has more on his mind these days than slapping his name on another pile of bricks and mortar, even if the pile of bricks is in Mother Russia. He wants to talk one superpower to another. "I'm not looking to do anything but let him know that these two great countries can and should get along together...
...with Gorbachev in a Coast Guard admiral's mansion on Governors Island, a site in New York harbor that was picked for security reasons. In proposing the meeting, Gorbachev said he wanted to dramatize his hope for continuity in Soviet-American relations. But no doubt he also wants to use the meeting to remind the world that his own foreign policy is up and running, while the U.S. is only just recovering from a distracting and unedifying presidential race...