Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abruptly, Ky decided to yield. If Thieu put him on the ticket, he said, he would bow out of the presidential race. That left Thieu and Ky overwhelming favorites to defeat the other 17 slates now in the running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more...
...lawyers and deluged with more than 5,000 documents. Last week the trial finally came to a halt. Only two defendants drew any significant rap: the part-time secret-service agent got eight years in prison; a vice-squad cop six. Oufkir, still safe in Morocco, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, as were the four French gangsters who are still on the lam. Colonel Dlimi, who dramatically surrendered to French police during the trial, was acquitted along with the remaining defendants...
...PAUL UNIVERSITY (Ill.) Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, LL.D. (in absentia), Primate of Poland...
...book. What were the legal grounds? The book did not have his bishop's imprimatur, as required by canon law. DuBay protested that many other Catholics have published without imprimatur, that the church is making a special case out of him, and that he had been "tried in absentia by anonymous judges." Contending that the order "goes completely against the Vatican Council's statement on freedom of religion, conscience and expression," DuBay argued that "prior censorship is a ghost that has been hovering around the Catholic Church since the Spanish Inquisition...
...Mass, assisted by two priests: William Kaifer, who was Luci's chaplain while she attended the Georgetown University School of Nursing, and John Kuzinskas of Chicago, who married the bridegroom's elder brother Gerard, now a Marine lieutenant in Viet Nam. Gerard will be best man in absentia; his father, Gerard Sr., will stand proxy for him. And so, after a ceremony of 60 minutes, Miss Luci Baines Johnson of the White House and Johnson City, Texas, will become the lawful wedded wife of Mr. Patrick John Nugent of Waukegan, Ill., a town hitherto famed mostly...