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...gamut of Executive Branch functions. Procedural questions also remain unresolved. Most important is the issue of "severability": Which of the affected laws can be cleansed of their unconstitutional veto clauses, as the court last week ruled was permitted in the immigration law, and which laws must now be thrown away along with their veto provisions? The high court and the lower federal courts, in order to refine last week's basic edict, will surely now face a surge of test cases...
Buildings and Grounds employees voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to accept a new one year contract, but University plans to contract out some of its maintenance work have thrown into question the fate of about 90 B&G personnel, whose positions are being formally eliminated...
...government's supposed popularity, and the latter claims that Nicaragua is a remarkably free society. As an American businessman who lived in Nicaragua for 15 years, I protest. If these readers are correct, why have the Sandinistas not opened the country to free elections? Why were business leaders thrown in jail for criticizing the government? Why was I advised by our State Department not to return to Nicaragua after testifying before a congressional subcommittee on the Nicaraguan situation? The Sandinistas are terrorists who use coercion, incarceration and assassination to achieve their goal...
Sadly, the guerrillas also fight vehemently among themselves. The Soviet invasion has sparked friction between ethnic Tajiks and ethnic Pushtuns and thrown gasoline on centuries-old feuds between Shi'ite Muslims and Sunni Muslims, and between pro-Iranian Shi'ites and independent Shi'ites. The guerrilla movement is thus fragmented into hundreds of units organized along village lines, each loosely affiliated with one of the six major resistance groups. Based in Pakistan, the leaders of most of those groups are quite unable to control events at the front. The divisions are so deep, moreover, that...
Liability laws are a hodgepodge across the nation. Generally, however, if a number of defendants contributed to the plaintiffs injury, he can seek full recovery from one or more of them. In a few states, a case can be thrown out if a plaintiffs carelessness contributed even slightly to the injury. Most states reduce the amount of the judgment in proportion to the plaintiff's negligence. But the long-term trend toward making it easier for plaintiffs to sue has not yet turned around. A bill to limit liability was voted down by a committee of the California legislature...