Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost every previous round, but unlike his fights in the ring, this time only the final round counted. Thus, after a four-year legal scrap, Muhammad Ali last week won a unanimous decision on points. The Supreme Court reversed his 1967 conviction for refusing induction on the grounds that the Government had wrongly attacked the basis of his beliefs...
...Ali had been refused conscientious-objector status by his draft board. When he went to his draft appeal board, the Justice Department advised it that he was not sincere and that his beliefs, based on the teachings of the Nation of Islam (more familiarly known as the Black Muslims), were "political and racial" in nature, rather than religious as required by law. The appeal board upheld Ali's 1-A classification...
Before the Supreme Court, the Government belatedly conceded that Ali was sincere and religiously motivated after all; but because Muslims admit that they would fight in a jihad, or holy war, the Government argued that Ali was not opposed to all wars and therefore was not entitled to c.o. status. The court refused to consider the holy-war argument, thereby failing to set a precedent for other Black Muslims. Instead, it ruled that the appeal board's decision had been hopelessly contaminated by the Government's earlier, admittedly erroneous attack on Ali's sincerity and religion...
...TARA ALI BAIG New Delhi, India
There was snow and there was snow and there was more snow. Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neal were able to romp in it, but everyone else had to make do keeping their eyes open for dog shit...