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...report came a week after U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene ruled that the Justice Department acted unlaw fully when it decided not to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. At the department's request, an appeals court has temporarily stayed the execution of Greene's order. Last week the court set June 20 as the date oral arguments will begin, making a resolution before the election likely...
...priority has been the rebuilding of San Francisco's cable-car system, a $58.2 million project due to be completed by late June, three weeks before Democratic conventiongoers start pouring in. She wheedled 80% of the funds from Washington and cajoled private citizens to donate the rest. Says Harold Geissenheimer, general manager of the city's transit system: "This is a businesswoman running this city. She's there seven days a week...
Until last year, Harold Costello lived in a two-room shack he had built on 15 acres of wooded land he owns in East Lebanon, Me. A former carpenter making do on $400 a month in disability benefits, he went without electricity and plumbing for four years. But last month Costello's lucky numbers were drawn in the Massachusetts Megabucks lottery. His prize: more than $2 million in annual installments of $113,000 for 20 years. Costello's first purchases were two "double-wide" mobile homes (cost: $30,000 each furnished), one to replace the Maine shack...
...papers from the Carter White House. Accordingly, Attorney General William French Smith decided against appointing a special prosecutor. Press interest began to wane, and the Administration breathed a collective sigh of relief that the potentially combustible case seemed closed. But last week it was revived when U.S. District Judge Harold Greene ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor. In a toughly worded 31-page ruling that drew some parallels to Watergate, Greene called Smith's handling of the probe "arbitrary and unlawful...
DIED. Alan Schneider, 66, consummate stage director best known for his productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter; of brain injuries received when he was hit by a motorcycle; in London. Schneider was noted for his exacting fidelity to even the most complex script, as he worked to transmit the inner truth of a play rather than impose on it any other vision. He crusaded particularly for Beckett, and his productions of Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, among others, profoundly influenced the course of modern theater. Also closely associated with Albee...