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...election commission sets the quota, which is one-tenth plus one of all votes cast for council seats and one-seventh plus one for the school committee...
...affairs, terrorizing attorneys and angering government officials. Now, however, a determined posse of federal and state officials have mounted a strenuous effort to rein in the freewheeling Ritter. The U.S. Attorney for Utah, Ramon Child, last month filed an unprecedented petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, demanding Ritter's disqualification from any case involving the Federal Government. Last week Utah Attorney General Robert Hansen filed a similar plea for all cases involving his state. In Washington, the Senate has authorized an admittedly superfluous third federal judge for Utah, and a House subcommittee has approved repeal...
...First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston in June upheld the NLRB ruling in favor of Local 880. But in a similar case in St. Louis, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled broadly that a hospital should be allowed to limit pro-union solicitation to areas where patients are not present, an official of the American Hospital Association said Wednesday...
Schleyer was the tenth target of West German terrorists to die in the past year. Another victim was Captain Jurgen Schumann, 37, pilot of the skyjacked Lufthansa jet. In a fit of irrational fury, the terrorist leader, who called himself "Walter Mahmud," killed Schumann with a single pistol shot when the plane was on the ground in Aden, Southern Yemen. Schumann's body was pushed down the plane's emergency exit chute at Mogadishu. Had it not been for the skill of the rescuing commandos, many, if not all, of the terrified hostages might have suffered similar fates. According...
...giant pumpkin with the eggplant nose and toupee top came from Leon Pappas, a Connecticut Avenue fruit and vegetable vendor. The smiles in the White House China Room came from Birthday Girl Amy Carter and 14 of her Washington schoolmates and chums. With Halloween shortly following Amy's tenth birthday party, the kiddie celebrants carved up pumpkins, gulped down hamburgers and punch, then settled back for a Frankenstein movie. Mom and Dad may have been anticipating colder days ahead, however. Their gift? A sled for Amy's winter visits to Camp David...