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Kosygin also asked to resign from the Politburo; that request will probably be taken up at the next party congress in February. The retiring Premier is believed to have suffered two heart attacks in the past four years, and has long been afflicted by painful circulatory ailments. Kosygin's absences from public view have become more frequent and prolonged. "He has been trying to resign for some time," a family friend explained last week. "He just wanted to rest and fish...
...Once we grant one request, we'll have to grant all of them," Associate Provost Gene Vincenti said, "and sooner or later we'll run out of space. That won't be fair...
Wyatt declined to say specifically that form the new company would take, saying the University decided to consider establishing the firm at the request of lawyers for MATEP users...
Because the extradition request named Gen. Contreras, the head of the military's secret torture-and-assassination bureaucracy, questioning by officers of the court during his trial would certainly have unearthed much of the military's deep involvement in new, distinctively unmilitary tasks. The possibility of extraordinary discredit to the Chilean military would simply have been too much for most of the Chilean military to tolerate. The spectacle of three high-ranking Chilean military officers on trial in the United States for murder would have generated tremendous pressure within the Chilean Armed Forces to stage a counter-coup against...
...city's rent control board last night postponed a final decision on Harvard's request for a permit to convert 7 Sumner Rd. from an apartment building to office space...