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Schacter also said that if all the ballots recorded during last spring's elections were valid, 10 percent more people voted than in 1986. The rise indicates that ballot boxes were probably stuffed, he said...
...Laxalt's urging, the Reagan Administration, normally cool to such environmental overtures, went along. One reason: Laxalt helped negotiate "multiple use" privileges for cattle grazing and valid mining claims. Even so, it will take years for the new park to become fully operational, says Superintendent Al Hendricks. Hiking paths are barely marked, roads often too bumpy for cars, and campsites have no potable water. Rangers are still taking inventory of plant and animal life, charting soil types and reviewing mining claims. The public has taken a role in park planning through a series of town- hall meetings. Among the suggestions...
...these criticisms are valid. Unfortunately some have chosen to view our difficulties in that region as evidence to bolster predictions of the decline of American power in the world. If we cannot even prevent Iranians armed with World War I vintage weapons from sinking ships, then what makes us think we can protect the entire free world virtually alone...
...week's end Judge Earl F. Riley rang down the curtain on that possibility, ruling that the prenuptial agreement was valid: Collins won her point. (Riley will take up the issue of temporary support in August.) "I'm very sorry it had to end like this," said Collins. "I'm very happy justice has been done." What would she expect in another relationship? she was asked. "Freedom, thank you very much," she replied. "Complete freedom from all entanglements...
...State Thomas Jefferson's proposal that the U.S. adopt a decimal-based system in 1790. A study 31 years later by his successor, John Quincy Adams, was similarly unpersuasive. But in 1866, Congress, charged by the Constitution with establishing the nation's weights and measures, declared the metric system valid for "contracts, dealings or court proceedings," and in 1893 officially defined the foot, pound and inch in metric equivalents...