Word: ade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosophical bind; they do not recognize the "pig courts." Last week, in the spirit of radical efforts to establish alternative institutions, a board of counterculture arbitrators handed down what it called a "Karma alignment" that resolved a financial argument between Abbie Hoffman and a former associate, Tom Forçade...
When 30 publishers turned down Hoffman's newest work, Steal This Book, he decided to publish it himself and asked for help from Forçade, who had had experience on the business side of underground publishing. Hoffman soon became dissatisfied with his collaborator's efforts and fired him. When Forçade requested $5,000 for the work he had already done, Hoffman refused. Forçade started legal action, and it looked as if Hoffman was headed for yet another courtroom. Then a friend suggested that a panel of Movement people might provide truer justice...
...ade's request for more money because of his troubles collecting was disallowed as "unreasonable." But the panel nonetheless offered Forçade a unique opportunity to get the balance of the $5,000. Hoffman is to sell him up to 10,000 copies of Steal This Book at cost. Forçade will then be free to resell the books on his own through the underground channels he was originally supposed to develop...
...world airline industry, bound to gether in the 108-member International Air Transport Association, has been setting air fares for the past 26 years with only an occasional break in its façade of comfortable unanimity. All that will likely end this week. West Germany's Lufthansa has been the sole holdout against a new scale of North Atlantic air fares, and IATA has given the "Route of the Red Baron" until Sept. 1 to go along. If, as expected, Lufthansa refuses to reconsider, IATA members will be without a common rate package...
Despite the comic-opera façade, however, Tubman made some substantial contributions to Africa's oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...