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...with the program explained that the most recent test, on July 27, was botched because of improperly placed shims, or washers, in the hot-thrust section of the missile. Glitches that have caused other failures include a faulty hydraulic pump and a misplaced wire that led to a short circuit. Officials of Martin Marietta declined to respond to Wickham's blast...
Potentially the most far-reaching scandal involved the Cook County circuit court, the nation's largest such unified system. The court for the past three years has been the target of an undercover federal investigation conducted by about 200 members of the Justice Department and the FBI. Local judicial circles were speculating that indictments would eventually implicate individuals at every level, from judges who accept case-fixing bribes, to lawyers who offer them, to police officers and clerks who act as go-betweens...
...pressure Congress for economic and military aid. He convinced Reagan, and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick agreed, that a Central American policy review was needed. In a telling remark, one White House official noted acerbically, "You don't handle Central American policies with tea and crumpets on the diplomatic circuit." Shultz and Clark cut a deal: in return for firing Enders, the Secretary of State would be given day-to-day control of Central American policymaking. Deane Hinton, the able Ambassador to El Salvador, was also fired as part of the bargain...
...gift be deducted on tax returns. Since any fine would have been paid to the Federal Government, the Justice Department opposed the endowment plan, arguing that Urbom lacked the authority to order payments to a third party not connected with the case. As it happens, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has already upheld nine earlier inventive sentences by Urbom, calling them "creative, innovative and imaginative." Among previous beneficiaries of the judge's rulings on bid-rigging cases: a nursing home, a youth home, a Y.M.C.A. and a hospital. Like the University of Nebraska, all the recipients have been...
...architecture, print, neon, fabric design, packaging, food or painting. Red, for instance, pertains to magic and sorcery, vitality, fire and the conquest of evil spirits. Japanese color is grounded in nature: every indigo or cobalt dye runs, as it were, back to the sea. But the circuit between nature and abstraction is far shorter than in the West. Color has the peremptory quality of calligraphy: a gesture, an unmediated...