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...State autonomy is perhaps the most contentious issue the constituent assembly will have to tackle as it cobbles together Bolivia's new Magna Carta (which begins August 6 and will last one year). It points up the seemingly intractable east-west dispute that erupted in violence two days after the July 2 vote, when members of the Santa Cruz Youth League attacked a meeting of the mostly indigenous Regional Worker Union in Santa Cruz, injuring dozens, while local police stood by. The commanding police officer was later fired but claims that he was only following the orders of the state...
...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." Filton, England March 13, 1964 The announcement that the U.S. already has a [military] plane flying at three times the speed of sound sent shock waves across Britain and France, which had been confident of winning air supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. The plane...
...Harvard, it turned out, was not what either of us thought it would be. It wasn’t the place where you could grapple with the maxims of ancient philosophy in a room where the Magna Carta was signed (Catizone’s dream breast). And it wasn’t the place where people skipped school for three weeks at a time to play Madden and ingest horse tranquilizers (Schonberger’s dream breast...
Ancient and craggy, St. Bartholomew's Church has been standing in Covenham, England, since 1257, not long after rebellious barons pressured King John into signing the Magna Carta. Abandoned in 1978 and slated for demolition, it may be reborn in Orange County, Calif. The Episcopal congregation of St. Matthews-by-the-Sea in Corona del Mar wants to make the cross-shaped church its home, shipping it from the windswept North Sea coastal village, about 130 miles north of London, through the Panama Canal to California. Though small (64 members), St. Matthews is wealthy enough to raise the estimated...
...mind for me. But I can say that insofar as the suggestions contemplate my voluntary departure, like Mark Twain's reported death, the rumor is grossly exaggerated." After restoring himself on a European tour this summer, which included a stop in England last week to help rededicate the Magna Carta, Brennan expects to be back in his regular seat at the court on the first Monday in October, ready for new battles with his conservative adversaries. --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and Raji Samghabadi/New York