Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governments that were strongly pro-Western have either fallen or been weakened in Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. Pro-Moscow regimes have come to power in Ethiopia, Afghanistan and South Yemen. The collapse of the Portuguese colonial empire gave the Russians new opportunities in southern Africa. Soviet naval vessels now call at ports from Mozambique to Viet...
Fireworks, protests and a solemn call for peace...
...been quick to learn, goes better with Coke. Thanks to the time difference between the capitals of the two nations, Peking got a 13-hour head start on normalization over Washington. Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing launched the New Year's Day occasion with a solemn call for world peace. As fireworks exploded outside the U.S. liaison office in Peking, Teng raised a glass of California champagne to Leonard Woodcock, the chief of the American mission, who is expected to be named the first U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic. In an elaborate toast...
...fame as a divorce lawyer-and his reputation as a "bomber" who can turn a marital split-up into an expensive war-dates from 1964, when he won a $2 million settlement for Actor James Mason's ex-wife Pamela. That case, settled before Mitchelson could call his 43 witnesses and extract lurid testimony about the Mason marriage, established Mitchelson's style: the messier the case he could prepare, the bigger the settlement. Says Mitchelson with a smile: "These were the weapons of the system," Since California adopted no-fault divorce in 1969, such weapons have been largely...
...reverberations from Mitchelson's latest case are already broad. As many as 1,000 Marvin vs. Marvin-style suits have been filed in the California courts alone. The case has stirred so much litigation that one San Francisco divorce lawyer now likes to call living together "marvinizing." Actress Britt Ekland had sued Singer Rod Stewart for a partnership interest in his earnings, estimated at $5 million, for the two years they lived together but settled last year for attorneys' fees, a house and some cash. Mitchelson, who has been called "the paladin of paramours," has been signed...