Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief seeks to prove that Nudel did not commit a crime under Soviet law, "but we expect the Soviet will be more affected by political considerations than the legal merits of our argument," Artz said. Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Patricia S. Schroeder (D.-Col.) signed the petition at Artz's request because the Soviets will pay more attention to congressmen," she said...
...This brief makes an impressive case that Ida Nudel could not have been guilty of 'malicious hooliganism' under Soviet law," Drinan, who is also a lawyer, said yesterday...
...Supreme Court. The class action suit is brought by the Women's Division of the big (9.9 million members) United Methodist Church in concert with Planned Parenthood and various doctors and poor women. The Methodists are backed by a friend-of-the-court brief filed by 15 other national religious interest groups, including the American Jewish Congress, the synagogue unions of Conservative and Reform Judaism, the Methodist Board of Church and Society, the United Presbyterian Church, and major agencies of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). All told, these groups represent...
Americans generally agree that many laws with religious origins (like Sunday closing laws) are entirely proper, while the government ought not to legislate the sectarian views of, say, Christian Scientists on medicine. But the issues of abortion and its public funding would appear to fall between these poles. The brief filed by the 15 organizations in McRae contends that "the majority of Americans" do not consider abortion immoral. Yet poll data indicate that about half the population agrees with the Catholic belief that human life begins at conception, and that only a minority of Americans are as liberal...
Spring is a lyrical, intricate pas de deux for Kyra Nichols and Daniel Duell (who are husband and wife). It is the surest, most elegant part of the ballet. Summer, danced by Stephanie Saland and Bart Cook, is brief, languid and dreamy-it ends, in fact, with the couple dozing. Before that, however, they have hovered and swayed like goldenrod in their burnished costumes; this is a new and seemingly airborne partnership...