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...familiar with such decisions. On the day he took office in 1988, there was an execution scheduled for that evening -- a grotesque welcome-to-power gift orchestrated by the outgoing Edwin Edwards, whom Roemer had defeated. "He knew that would affect me," the Governor recalls. He allowed it to proceed. Prejean was the fourth man to die in the electric chair during Roemer's two years in office. Last August, however, Roemer at the last minute blocked the execution of Ronald Monroe because of lingering doubts about his guilt. A lawyer close to the Monroe case cracked last week, "There...
...frame something other than a flat no. The President asked congressional leaders to join Administration officials in a "summit" meeting to plan, at long last, a real whack at the runaway budget deficit. His spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Bush wanted the talks to start with "no preconditions" and proceed "unfettered with conclusions about positions taken in the past." Meaning, everyone assumed, that a tax increase could at least be seriously discussed, and Bush just might let himself be talked into...
...asked why the decree was undated and why Brezhnev had not personally signed it. Rekunkov said something about "technicalities." I failed to ask who had made the decision to banish me and on what authority. I considered the entire proceeding completely illegal and thought it pointless to argue fine points of jurisprudence with those who obviously had no respect for the law. By maintaining this attitude all through my first weeks in Gorky, I may have created the inadvertent impression that I accepted their right to proceed in this totally unlawful manner...
...must do away completely with all manifestations of disunity. We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and action must proceed from the interests of the whole party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle.... We must combat individualism and sectarianism so as to enable our whole Party to march in step and fight for one common goal...
...There is a serious questionabout how best to proceed, how best to weigh theinterests of people who want to takeROTC...against this policy," Bok said. "Let's hopewe can get some resolution at that stage withouthaving to confront the ultimate question ofwhether we stay...