Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong in fact, that Danehy cajoled and argued and pressured the City Council to join in a citizen group's suit asking for an injunction against the MBTA's construction activities...
...Westigard states incorrectly, I believe, that TVA is planning 17 new nuclear power plants. There are six currently under construction, but Dawn Ford, chief of the citizen's action office, noted yesterday that they were all begun before either of the Carter appointments were made. There are no additional plants planned. David Freeman, who has labeled the plan for a nuclear breeder reactor a "turkey," has also called for a reassessment of TVA's reliance on nuclear power...
...whether they belong to blacks, companies-or, for that matter, to Charles Morgan. He quit the A.C.L.U.in 1976 because of the director's objections to his public political comments, writing: "I do not admit the right of any bureaucracy to grant or deny me my rights as a citizen." Most corporate lawyers with a big equal opportunity case on their hands would advise settlement or conciliation. Morgan's move to take Sears' complaint to court, says one civil liberties lawyer, is "bold and unorthodox, but vintage Morgan...
...million out of the country. After lengthy legal proceedings, the producer is sentenced to four years in prison and fined $26.4 million. His wife, however, is acquitted. Such have been the real-life ups and downs for Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren. Since Ponti is now a French citizen, it is highly unlikely that he will ever be sent to jail. As for the fine, he may have to pay a small part of it. The word from Ponti's lawyers: an immediate appeal...
...getting the full red-carpet treatment on his first visit to the Middle East. In Egypt, the former President stayed at the Aswan Oberoi along with another tourist, the Shah of Iran. Ford, accompanied by his wife Betty, also stopped off in Israel. "I came as a private citizen," he said, and hence felt little compunction about beating a hasty retreat from a dinner with Premier Menachem Begin. After all, Private Citizen Ford had a date to watch the Super Bowl via a special satellite hookup...