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While struggling to get aloft, Pershing II was also attracting critics determined to keep it grounded. Reviewing the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year ending October 1983, the House Appropriations Subcommittee early last week recommended withholding more than $500 million in production funds until the Pershing II has successfully completed its tests. After the missile's encouraging flight, however, it is unlikely that the full Appropriations Committee or the House will go along with such a cutoff...
Mervin Aubespin, 45, was in the city room late one night at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he has been a reporter for more than a decade, when an editor dropped by with an unusual request. The editor wanted Aubespin, who is black, to telephone a source on a story he had been covering since its inception, then hand the source over to a white reporter who would conduct an interview. Says the normally restrained Aubespin: "The assumption was made, purposely or not, that I was not able to ask the right questions. I got real evil...
...class in American Sign Language. The two areas in which structural areas have been a particular problem for Harvard are classes and the houses. A few of Harvard's classroom buildings (the Science Center, for instance) are accessible to wheelchairs, and others have accessible first floors. Students can request the Registrar's Office to move an inaccessible class to one of these areas. Also, we submit a tentative course plan to the Registrar's Office several months before the semester starts...
...Connor, Ginsberg, and Gibbons unanimously ruled against Mendez's request that his conviction be overturned after he was returned to the United States...
...suit, Mendez was arrested in a foreign nation for a drug-related crime and imprisoned He asked to serve his sentence in the United States and under a treaty that request was granted...