Word: carta
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Concluded the delegates, in a final resolution that some observers called a new Magna Carta for African women: "We regret that in Africa marriage is considered a contract between two family groups rather than two people." Main calls to action: a complete end to prepuberty engagements, a change in the bride-buying custom to make the money only symbolic, suppression of polygamy, "which gravely prejudices the dignity and the rights of woman...
That crusade began for Charles Rhyne last summer when he was installed in the A.B.A.'s presidency at the 80th anniversary convention in London. On Runnymede's historic meadow, Rhyne dedicated the A.B.A.'s monument in commemoration of the sealing of Magna Carta. In Westminster Hall, Chief Justice Earl Warren and then Attorney General Herbert Brownell of the U.S., Lord Kilmuir, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the lawyers of two continents joined in a session that was, in itself, one of the great landmarks in the history of law (TIME...
Economic Magna Carta. But there are far more positive ways by which the rule of law can be extended to world affairs. Much of the turmoil in modern international relations comes from the fact that new nations, arising from the ruins of colonialism, require capital for their national development, but are afraid of the political dependence that goes with it. Lawyers ask: Why not an international agreement that sets down the political rights and the economic responsibilities of the borrowers? Last year, speaking at the International Industrial Development Conference in San Francisco. German Banker Hermann Abs issued a ringing call...
...Such a convention, which I may call a Magna Carta for the protection of foreign interests, should provide for a special international court of arbitration, which would determine whether cases brought before it involve violation of principles. I could well imagine that in case of particularly serious violations, the court of arbitration will be entitled by the terms of the treaty to oblige the member countries to refuse new private or public loans and credits to the country in default." The Universal Instinct. Through such efforts toward an orderly system that satisfies the principles held in common by most nations...
...owned power companies. Castro persists in the cane-burning campaign-a pointless waste of the country's wealth that may well anger many Cubans. Up in the hills, notes one conservative rebel with a mixture of admiration and fear, "he acts like a king before the Magna Carta, sitting under a tree and dispensing justice...