Supreme Court allows juror exclusions in death penalty cases
The court, in a 6 3 ruling, permits excluding opponents of capital punishment from juries deciding guilt or innocence in death penalty cases and affects thousands of inmates seeking new trials. dissenting Justice Marshall condemns the decision as glib and unjust.
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Supreme Court
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Thurgood Marshall
Stanford University Law School
Samuel R. Gross
Gross
Henry Schwarzschild
American Civil Liberties Union
Capital
Arkansas
Steve Clark
David Lee
Oklahoma
Rehnquist
Soviet woman testifies in Miller spy trial in Los Angeles
Svetlana Ogorodnikov told the jury she cannot recall many events from their last days together and denied a pivotal love-making session in Richard W. Miller's car. Prosecutors cited a coded KGB call urging a Vienna meeting as part of the conspiracy to pass secrets for $65,000 in cash and gold.
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Los Angeles
FBI
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Russell Hayman
Ogorodnikov
Vienna
Miller
Senate panel rejects tax deductions in broad overhaul
The Senate Finance Committee voted down two amendments to preserve the state and local sales tax deduction as part of a sweeping tax overhaul. Packwood pushes for a final vote. IRAs and other provisions face changes. The plan sería retain income and property tax deductions while killing the sales tax writeoff and expanding exemptions and rate cuts.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Bob Packwood
R-Ore
Packwood
David Durenberger
Rminn
Senate
House
Justice Department blocks Meese Waldheim discussion
The Justice Department refused a second request by 15 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to meet with Attorney General Edwin Meese on Kurt Waldheim. Meese offered to have AAG John Bolton meet instead, a move some lawmakers call misleading amid Waldheim's wartime service disclosure and a 1978 law on Nazi-era persecution. Austrian voters backed a runoff after Waldheim narrowly failed to win an absolute majority, amid accusations he hid his WWII role in German intelligence. Neal Sher's report cites Waldheim as a special missions officer in Group E's intelligence wing.
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Justice Department
House Judiciary Committee
Edwin Meese
Kurt Waldheim
Peter Rodine
D-N.j
House
Judiciary Committee
Charles Schumer
D-N.y
Neal Sher
Waldheim
United Nations
United States
Balkans
Schumer
Meese
John Bolton
Nations seek final signoff on Star Wars cooperation with Israel
Washington AP reports last minute details loom as Israel nears an agreement to let its companies and laboratories participate in Reagan era Star Wars program. Israeli Defense Minister Rabin to meet Defense Secretary Weinberger. final details to be settled at their talks today.
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Washington
Israel
Defense Department
Yitzhak Rabin
Caspar W. Weinberger
UNRWA moves foreign staff from west Beirut to east Beirut
Relief group UNRWA withdraws seven international staff from west Beirut citing kidnappings and killings of foreigners. Director Robert Gallagher and six others including two West Germans, two Swedes, one Norwegian, and one Jordanian relocated to east Beirut while operations in Lebanon continue.
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U.N. Relief and Works Agency For
West Beirut
Lebanon
Robert Gallagher
UNRWA
East Beirut
Tannir
Gallagher
Navy board backs returning blimp to active duty
A Navy executive board approved restoring the World War II era blimp to active duty, recommending funds to start a new fleet in fiscal 192. The modern airship would serve as a cheap radar platform traveling with ships to warn against cruise missiles and counter Soviet advances.
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Navy
Chief of Naval Operations’ Executive Board
John F. Lehman
Tov
Rebels assassinate Peruvian Rear Admiral on street corner
In Lima, left wing rebels posing as lovers killed Rear Adm. Carlos Ponce Canessa as he drove from home Monday morning. Police blamed the Shining Path Movement for the assassination, a high ranking officer among those targeted since the Wadi group's six year campaign began. Four guerrillas waited as his car stopped, allowing other vehicles to pass.
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Peru
Shining Path Movement
Adm
Carlos Ponce Canessa
Wadi Group
Guerrik
Ponce Canessa
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