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...adopted, will the prohibition against abortion be enforced by bugging doctors' offices to be sure any request for one is rejected? Will the FBI have a Pregnancy Division to check on questionable miscarriages...
...point, this ploy seems to have been successful. Gaddafi did send a personal note to Khomeini urging once again that the hostages be freed. But the request had no impact at all on the Ayatullah for a reason that should have been quite clear to the White House: Gaddafi had no influence with Khomeini. Even more baffling was Brzezinski's use of the unorthodox Billy channel when State Department routes for approaching Gaddafi had been carefully cultivated...
...With rare speed, the Immigration and Naturalization Service approved young Walter's petition for "political asylum," a claim made possible by a recent change in the immigration laws that allows "a person," no age specified, to seek such refuge; before, a parent or guardian had to sign a request for asylum by a minor...
London and Paris were thus prompted to mount the first joint Franco-British military effort since the Suez crisis of 1956. Warned of the troops' imminent arrival, Stevens declared that they were coming at his request. At week's end, the French said that the Central Government had come to a tentative agreement with the now more amenable rebels...
...took vigorous exception to the platform's judiciary plank, which proposes that only people who oppose abortion should be appointed federal judges. "The worst plank that has ever been in a platform," railed Percy at a special caucus of the Illinois delegation. But at a Reagan lieutenant's request, two Illinois delegates were prepared to deflect Percy's challenge. The delegation voted by 75 to 27 to table Percy's motion...