L.A. Times Archives March 12, 198512 AM PT Share A Mississippi judge promised not to implement a no-strike order this week while the Legislature tries to come up with a salary package to end wildcat teacher walkouts. At the same time, Gov. Bill Allain told 1,000 teachers at a union...
During five weeks of hearings by the Senate Ethics Committee, the Keating affair has proved to be an allegory that has dramatized the shortcomings of the current campaign finance system. And, to the surprise of some, Keating has emerged as just one of many wealthy men and women who routinely...
The Senate’s televised Watergate hearings, over which Ervin presided in 1973, catapulted the North Carolina Democrat from relative obscurity to national acclaim as a folk hero. This was at an age when most public men had dropped from view. Ervin’s cherubic features, his mobile eyebrows that ...
“But this one’s for love and for keeps,” she said. Mandaville, the director of Middle Eastern studies at his university, told reporters he has known for months the tougher side of his blushing bride. At committee hearings he witnessed, “she talked straight. Sometimes that gets in the ...
Kennedy’s lobbying activities are certain to come under close scrutiny when the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares its hearings on the expected nomination, which probably will begin sometime in January. On Wednesday, when apprised of Schenley’s past legal problems, committee Chairman Joseph R. ...
No fewer than four bills requiring seat belt use are before the Legislature, three of which are scheduled for their first hearing today before the Senate Transportation Committee. Surrounding each is an impressive array of studies suggesting that such laws are either the best way to save lives or...
Business leaders came out in favor of removing the flag several years ago. In 1994, a bill that would have done what Beasley now is proposing passed the state Senate but failed in the House. The national NAACP at one point threatened an economic and tourist boycott of the state unless the...
In response, the Legislature ushered in the era of “determinate” sentencing. Today, most inmates serve a fixed sentence and are automatically released, whether they are rehabilitated or not. In evaluating the 2,000 or so prisoners who come before them each year, parole board members rely on...
Even Sen. Daniel J. Evans (R-Wash.), whose decision to step down at the end of this year was widely viewed as a repudiation of the Senate, said he still reveres the institution. “I’ve got great respect for it,” he said. “My dismay is because I really respect it so much and...
President Chiang Ching Kuo today decreed the end of martial law imposed by his Nationalist Party 38 years ago when it fled to this island after the communists took over mainland China.