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...Navy has so far resisted the request to change the name. The sub is not named after a sacred mystery of the faith but, the Navy says, the Texas city (pop. 332,000) where the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station is the largest employer. Besides, a World War II Navy ship was called Corpus Christi, and vessels today are named, indirectly, after saints. For instance, the Santa Barbara carries the name of the patroness of artillery men. Last April at the sub's christening-yes, christening-Secretary Lehman, a Roman Catholic, argued that the Second Vatican Council...
...district court decision is the lowest rung on the legal ladder. If a request for reconsideration is denied by Sherman, the city represented by new lawyers will likely ask for a stay first from district court and then from Superior Court...
...University will respond to the council's request to consider potential temporary parking lots, Lewis A. Armistead, assistant to the vice president for government and community affairs, said. Armistead added, however, that the University has made no commitment to providing new parking at any of its properties in the Square...
...intended for Allen or was kept by Allen for a corrupt purpose." According to the Justice Department's summary of the investigation, Chizuko Takase, wife of a longtime business associate of Allen's, asked his help on the magazine interview with Mrs. Reagan. Allen passed on the request to the Reagan transition officials in charge of scheduling, recommending that the interview be granted if the First Lady's time permitted...
What disappoints the critics is that Weinberger has become merely a money shoveler, doing little to reformulate national strategy or work for greater military efficiencies. His initial 1982 request for $222 billion was 11% higher than the budget Jimmy Carter had projected for 1982, yet it charted no new directions; it merely boosted spending, item by item. If Weinberger looked like a prisoner of the generals on the budget, he appeared to be an amateur in rejecting the advice of his high command on the MX missile and vacillating on a new strategic bomber. After much public agonizing, he failed...