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Lujan's strength comes in part from a record of old-fashioned constituent service. "People know they can call me and get results," he says. Lujan has assigned seven of his 13 congressional staff members to chase down tardy Social Security checks and disentangle Government red tape. On the campaign trail, fueled by a breakfast of graham crackers and peanut butter, Lujan totes a briefcase crammed with "casework forms," on which he records complaints from constituents. He couples such efforts with well-aimed personal touches: birthday cards, sympathy notes and welcoming letters to district newcomers...
...requiring, for example, parental consent for minors. The Justices will also rule on the constitutionality of a Minnesota statute that allows parents a tax deduction for their children's private-school tuition. Then there is the so-called Betamax case: Are U.S. copyright laws violated when video-tape-machine owners record TV shows at home? A critical case tests the legality of the legislative veto, a device in some 200 laws that allows Congress to disapprove regulations issued by federal agencies. And in cases to be argued this week the Justices may have to second-guess the Reagan Administration...
...scene concludes without bloodshed, but its importance becomes clear that night when Sonny in listening to his walkman in bed. The tape stops in the middle, and a satanic voice breaks in: "Why didn't you pull that trigger? Why didn't you shoot that...
...enough time nor enough room to bring a plane to a safe halt on the runway. Lighting panels dropped from the roof of the cabin, and hundreds of souvenirs spilled from overhead baggage compartments. Passenger Carlton Maloney, 30, an audiovisual specialist at Manhattan's Pace University who was tape-recording the sound of the takeoff, cried into his microphone: "We are in trouble...
...company from Martin Alpert, president of Tecmar, Inc., an electronics firm in Cleveland. Alpert said that his company had been approached by IBM's Erdman with an offer of what appeared to be confidential information. IBM officials persuaded Alpert to play along with Erdman and covertly tape their negotiations. IBM Security Director Richard Mainey planned the ruse and equipped Alpert with a recorder...