Word: annulment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concordat has thus created a number of practical difficulties. Only ecclesiastical courts have any authority to annul a marriage; religious education is mandatory in public schools, even for non-Catholic children; defrocked priests may be kept from holding positions in which they meet the public; and despite free-speech guarantees, an iconoclastic play like Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy may be barred from performance in Rome because it allegedly defames Pope Pius...
...Katangese captain, and made sure that 300 white civilian refugees from the fighting were escorted safely across the border into Rwanda. Then he issued an ultimatum giving Mobutu ten days in which to negotiate for peace. Among Schramme's terms: that Mobutu return democratic government to the Congo, annul the treason conviction of ex-President Tshombe (who is now in an Algerian jail awaiting extradition) and make Tshombe a member of the Cabinet...
What most annoyed Mobutu, though, was something much more direct: "It has been said that Parliament will annul the ordinances that I have decreed since November. Therefore I am forced to take the decision not to permit Parliament to discuss either the laws I have passed or the laws I shall pass in the future." Last week, as good as his word, Mobutu stripped the legislators of everything but their salaries-and the occasional right of rubber-stamping his constitutional amendments. And, as he had warned, unless they stopped their political intrigues, he could close Parliament altogether. "This," said Mobutu...
Pope Paul VI is openly alarmed at the thousands of annulment petitions submitted in recent years to the Sacred Rota in Rome, the church's final court of appeals on marital matters. Annulment can be a temptingly clear-cut solution to complex legal and human dilemmas, although sometimes it seems to non-Catholics like a merry-go-round that permits influential Catholics such as Lee Radziwill and Moviemaker Michelangelo Antonioni to shed old spouses and acquire new ones with the approval of the church. Currently, Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman, twice mar ried (to Actresses Nora Ricci and Shelley Winters...
...price be put on chastity? Yes, said a Tulsa jury. Mrs. Lavonda Hardesty was understandably incensed when her husband sued to annul their two-week-old marriage because he was not legally free from a previous marriage. Lavonda, 18, then sued her ex-husband for loss of chastity on which she put a price tag of $40,000. Last week the jury (nine women, three men) cut the price but went on to vote $500 in punitive damages and $2,000 in actual damages...