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Earlier, Eddie Murray appeared to have put the game out of reach with a three-run home run in the second. The blow gave Baltimore an 8-1 lead with Flannagan, who led the major leagues in victories with 23, on the mound...
...haul its wastes all the way to Washington. Rosenberg says "it is very, very likely that costs have doubled or tripled" in the last year. Downriver at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), officials spent about $30,000 in 1978 to haul away radioactive sludge. This year, says Murray Bolton, a radiation safety officer at MIT, his office budgeted the same amount. But costs have tripled and, he adds sighing, "We're not going to make it." And these are just shipping costs. Washington officials say private users like Harvard must pay about $16 a gallon to complete disposal once...
Besides logistical problems, officials in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington had to contend with lawsuits brought by civil libertarians, abortion advocates and atheists, including Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who won the Supreme Court ruling in 1963 that banned prayer from public schools. Opponents argued that public spending on the platforms constructed for the Pope's Masses, or even the use of public land, would violate the Constitution's separation of church and state. Complained Boston Plaintiff Bill Baird: "What do you think would happen if the Ayatullah Khomeini were coming to Boston Common to conduct a Muslim service...
BOSTON--Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who in the 1960s successfully sued to ban compulsory prayers in U.S. public schools, asked a federal court Tuesday to stop John Paul II fron celebrating a mass October 7 on the Washington Mall...
...plea bargaining be abolished by 1978. Today, it is still the method by which the vast majority of criminal cases are handled. It helps reduce the case load, but it also reflects the fact that the system cannot handle the flood of litigation. Says a Sandusky, Ohio, attorney, Thomas Murray Jr.: "When you talk about one case in 50 getting to trial, the system is not breaking down. It has broken down...