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...equipment before the end of 1982 could sell their deductions under the safe harbor leasing provisions. For the steel industry, however, the deadline had to be extended for there to be any benefits. Bailey told Rostenkowski: "These things have to be changed." But Bailey did not make his request until 10:30 Tuesday night, 90 minutes before the conference committee report on the bill had to be filed. So Rostenkowski got on the phone to members of the committee, asking for their approval and telling them of the 20 votes in the steel caucus that might hang in the balance...
...this occasion he solicited the Cabinet's support for a series of tactical moves around Beirut as part of the Israelis' continuing effort to strengthen their military positions. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich, who had generally supported Sharon in the past, immediately declared that the request was out of the question. Taking up the argument, the Moroccan-born David Levy, another Deputy Prime Minister, who has been a consistent critic of Sharon, declared, "The country is confused. Government decisions are being violated: steps are being taken without government approval. These things are endangering the [Habib] agreement...
...judges had heard his various legal arguments, and still he sat on death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center. Though maintaining his innocence, he dropped his appeals and asked that the execution proceed. "Further incarceration," he said, "can only lead to my being stripped of all personal dignity." His one request: a summer date, to minimize the taunts to his two school-age sons...
...review of Virginia's death penalty was pending in another case. Governor Charles Robb ordered an immediate appeal. Two state attorneys flew to Washington, D.C., and rushed to the Supreme Court, where they found the main door locked. They finally got in a side door and submitted their request for a reversal at 7:25 p.m. At 10:25 the court ruled, apparently without reading the arguments of anti-death-penalty lawyers who had arrived with their papers...
...battlefield situation. The action took place, TRON-like, entirely with in the circuitry of a large research computer, but the officers sitting in front of the machine's display screens were not just playing video games. They were in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the Pentagon's request to test the world's most powerful combat simulator. The fate of the earth after the fall out cleared is classified information, but it is no secret that the sophistication of the computer program that created the war game made a big hit with the brass. Says Lieut Colonel...