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...after reading this request. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence and the Faculty members of the CRR have decided to proceed with or without student delegates in hopes of reaching a decision before Commencement...
...procedures of the CRR state that the committee "should make make all reasonable effort to assure essential fairness and due process." But the decision to proceed with the convening of the CRR, despite the valid request for postponement by House committee chairmen, can only be seen as a lack of concern for this procedure...
...essence, the Senate took money for social programs from the military. The $302.5 billion in Pentagon spending authority (the right to sign contracts) that the Senate approved for fiscal 1986 is a bit more than $20 billion below Reagan's initial request in February, and $10.3 billion less than a compromise figure the President grudgingly approved five weeks ago. The resolution would allow the military budget to rise 3% in excess of the expected rate of inflation in each of the following two years; Reagan initially wanted increases...
...since the veterans never proved that the chemical caused their problems. But Weinstein in effect criticized the U.S. for abandoning a moral responsibility. Its "benign detachment," said the judge, "may be cruel to the veterans who served their country." Weinstein pointed out that the companies had "produced at Government request what amounted to critical war supplies." Defense contractors, he said, may require exemption from liability before making such products for the Pentagon in the future...
Carlton Johnson was suffering from spina bifida, a condition in which the spine is not closed, as an infant at Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City in 1981. On the advice of hospital doctors, his parents did not request corrective surgery. Carlton survived, thanks in part to a later operation, but is now mentally retarded. Last week the hospital was accused of withholding treatment from a number of afflicted infants based on "quality of life" considerations, thus causing the death of 24 babies...