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...DOOR, the private security force checks everyone attending this final statewide rally for Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr., Democrat for President, running the metal detector over their bodies. "We'd prefer you didn't take pictures of the security operation," one guard says, and the request has no escape clause. "People are finally beginning to realize they won't be able to defraud us out of the election--we just don't know how desperate they're going to get," Laura Cohen, a campaign aide says in explanation...
Council observers predicted the committee will approve $900,000 of the $919,000 request when it finally votes on the budget...
Acting on the suggestion of Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, council members sent the request to the council budget committee, where it will stay for two to three weeks until city budget specialists have finished scrutinizing the city budget...
...border, the "events in Afghanistan" are still ominous. The legalistic fictions used to justify the invasion are distinctly reminiscent of those used to justify "the events in Czechoslovakia" twelve years ago. Then it was called "the temporary deployment of Soviet troops on the territory of Czechoslovakia," ostensibly at the request of the Czechoslovak peoples-even though the invasion crushed the most popular Prague regime in 20 years. Now it is called "the introduction of a limited contingent of Soviet troops temporarily into Afghanistan," ostensibly at the invitation of a government whose head was summarily executed. Moreover, what might be called...
...college expelled seven of the students and suspended the other four for the duration of this semester. A state supreme court judge denied the students' request for reinstatement and a college spokesmen said constitutional due process rights were not an issue because "Ithaca College is a private institution and not tax-supported...